Mental Disorders, Autonomy and Mental Capacity - 12th January 2010. London

Event location: Royal Society of Medicine, London

Date: 12th Jan 2010

Event time: 09:00 to 17:30

What is autonomy and why do we value it?

  • Professor Wayne Martin - Where are we now in English mental health law?
  • Professor Genevra Richardson - Epidemiology of mental capacity
  • Professor Matthew Hotopf - Mental capacity, psychopathology and insight
  • Dr Gareth Owen - Assessing capacity in challenging groups
  • Dr Anne Stewart - Anorexia nervosa
  • Dr Paul Moran - Personality disorder
  • Dr Simon Fleminger - Brain injury
  • Debate: Should we fuse the MHA and the MCA? Yes - Professor George Szmukler and Dr Frank Holloway; No - Professor Tony Maden and Professor Tony David
Programme details and booking here.


Contact: Ruth Cloves, Events Co-ordinator, Psychiatry Section, Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London W1G 0AE. Tel: +44 (0) 20 7290 2985 Email: psychiatry@rsm.ac.uk or visit www.rsm.ac.uk/psychiatry