Psychiatrists, Against the New Law that Limits Patients' Involuntary Income: 'Leave Their Families Alone'
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The new regulation that comes into force on October 23, opens a deep gap between Health and psychiatrists on how to protect the most serious patients without violating their rights Read
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The Spanish Society of Psychiatry and Mental Health (SEPSM), together with about twenty autonomous societies, have signed a document rejecting the entry into force, on 23 October, of article 13 bis, of Law 4/2026, which substantially modifies the criteria of involuntary psychiatric admission and limits it to cases of 'life emergency'. The article, the only one of the law dedicated to mental health, changes the criteria of involuntary admission, …
Politics and regulations solitadvalle Legal reform There were about 75,000 involuntary psychiatric detentions in Spain in 2025, according to the latest data of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ). This is an instrument, of last resort, in the hands of psychiatrists, that requires judicial authorization and that has always been surrounded by controversy: poorly regulated and also poorly applied. The European Court of Human Rights has rule…
The Spanish Society of Psychiatry and Mental Health (SEPSM), together with 20 other autonomic and monographic societies of Psychiatry, express their rejection of the entry into force on 23 October of article 13 bis of Law 4/2026, which substantially modifies the criteria of involuntary psychiatric admission and limits it to cases of 'life emergency'.
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