title: [The rights of psychiatric patients].
abstract: The author gives a historical account of patient's rights and in particular the development of codes of rights of psychiatric patients during the past twenty years. He describes differences in attitudes to rights of psychiatric patients in different societies and the different emphasis on patient's rights, as compared with rights of society. Briefly the so far most elaborated account of rights of psychiatric patients submitted by the American Psychiatric Association is described.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatrické centrum Praha.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Baudis
mesh_terms: D018153:Czech Republic; D006801:Humans; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D011570:Psychiatry
vernacular_title: Práva psychiatrických pacientů.