I’m extremely worried about my brother’s mental state. Not only do I think he needs medical help, but he’s also becoming a danger to his child and pregnant girlfriend. Can I get him sectioned under the mental health act? It’s the only way he’ll get the help he needs.” The Section d'Or ("Golden Section"), also known as Groupe de Puteaux or Puteaux Group, was a collective of painters, sculptors, poets and critics associated with Cubism and Orphism. Based in the Parisian suburbs, the group held regular meetings at the home of the Duchamp brothers in Puteaux and at the studio of Albert Gleizes in Courbevoie. [1] Active from 1911 to around 1914, members of the collective came to prominence in the wake of their controversial showing at the Salon des Indépendants in the spring of 1911. This showing by Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger, Robert Delaunay, Henri le Fauconnier, Fernand Léger and Marie Laurencin (at the request of Apollinaire), created a scandal that brought Cubism to the attention of the general public for the first time.

Find out what happens when you're made to stay in hospital. This could be for treatments or assessment. Find out about your rights and who you can ask for help.

Somebody who has been sectioned can consult a legal advisor such as a solicitor, but lawyers have no power to stop the section taking place - only to advise on how to get it lifted. Richardson, John. A Life Of Picasso, The Cubist Rebel 1907-1916. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. ISBN 978-0-307-26665-1

Sectioning someone means they would be kept in hospital or a mental health facility under the Mental Health Act, which basically allows for this to happen legally if they are considered to be dangerous due to a mental illness. There are different levels of sectioning depending on the circumstances, but in all cases the person can be prevented from leaving the hospital and given treatment, in some cases this can be without their consent. Sectioning usually lasts for 28 days, but can be up to six months. After treatment, the doctor in charge should assess the patient and allow them to leave hospital.

Their functions can include helping to assess whether a person needs to be compulsorily detained (sectioned) as part of their treatment.

You should be kept fully informed. The health professionals should keep you fully informed of what is happening, and should answer any specific questions you may have. Health information on your records can only be kept from you if it is likely to cause serious harm to you or someone else. If possible, one of the doctors will already know you. The AMHP is usually a social worker, but could be a mental health nurse, psychologist or occupational therapist. In an emergency In answer to a young person’s question, we’re here to explain when and how to get someone sectioned and what the process of sectioning involves. When should someone be sectioned?

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Camfield says that neither of the paintings he analyses "can be definitively identified with "La Section d'Or" paintings", only that the "stylistic evidence" places them in that period and they "would almost certainly have been shown" there. [15] c) with the goodwill of the persons responsible, to bury the dead or read the burial service before, at or after a cremation;