Severe Depression with Cotard’s Phenomenon: Treatment of a Capacitated Patient Within the United Kingdom’s Mental Health Act 2007

Treatment of Cotard’s syndrome with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has been seen to be an effective treatment option when pharmacological options are not successful. Recent changes in the Mental Health Act 2007 used within the United Kingdom has resulted in clinicians unable to prescribe treatment...

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Autores principales: Mughal, Faraz, Menezes, Simon B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4253391/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25478127
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/mi.2013.e3
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description Treatment of Cotard’s syndrome with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has been seen to be an effective treatment option when pharmacological options are not successful. Recent changes in the Mental Health Act 2007 used within the United Kingdom has resulted in clinicians unable to prescribe treatment for patients who have capacity but are not providing consent for treatment. We report a case of a patient in the UK with Cotard’s phenomenon and severe depression, where the only effective treatment of ECT was restricted due to changes in mental health law. The role of maintenance ECT as well as the ethical dilemma faced is discussed.
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spelling pubmed-42533912014-12-04 Severe Depression with Cotard’s Phenomenon: Treatment of a Capacitated Patient Within the United Kingdom’s Mental Health Act 2007 Mughal, Faraz Menezes, Simon B. Ment Illn Case Report Treatment of Cotard’s syndrome with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has been seen to be an effective treatment option when pharmacological options are not successful. Recent changes in the Mental Health Act 2007 used within the United Kingdom has resulted in clinicians unable to prescribe treatment for patients who have capacity but are not providing consent for treatment. We report a case of a patient in the UK with Cotard’s phenomenon and severe depression, where the only effective treatment of ECT was restricted due to changes in mental health law. The role of maintenance ECT as well as the ethical dilemma faced is discussed. PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2013-04-23 /pmc/articles/PMC4253391/ /pubmed/25478127 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/mi.2013.e3 Text en ©Copyright F. Mughal and S.B. Menezes http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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