Przymus leczenia chorego z zaburzeniami psychicznymi w prawie polskim

Abstract

In the Polish law compulsory treatment of patients with mental disturbances is applied to those persons whose behavior directly threatens their own life or the life and health of other people, whereas persons unable to satisfy their basic needs on their own are admitted to homes run by welfare institutions. Admitting people to a mental hospital or to a welfare home is subjected to judicial control that is exercised by the guardianship court and the visiting judge. The law allows for three kinds of direct coercion: holding, application of medicines, immobilizing, and isolating. With respect to juveniles compulsory treatment is applied by virtue of a decision of the court.