1 IntroductionMalka Magnesia, a second-year political science student with an A average, suddenly returns to the attic of her parents' house and refuses to go to school or work. She explains that her "superiors" in another galaxy ordered her to simply sit down and repent. Her shocked family begs her to seek medical attention but she refuses because her "superiors" consider her "unworthy". The family psychiatrist advises that exposure to some of the modern drugs is known to reduce such schizophrenic symptoms within a period of weeks. To what extent, if at all, should the law allow involuntary hospitalization and drug treatment of Malka Magnesia? To what extent, if at all, would it make any difference if he suddenly took to the streets and started giving large sums of his inheritance money to complete strangers, because, once again, he was ordered to do so by his “superiors”? And to what extent would it change if, for the same reasons, he started fasting? To whatever extent you permit some form of coercion, specify the criteria and safeguards that should apply. The rest of the paper is organized as follows: In the next section, the three different stages of Malka Magnesia's disease are examined regarding the question of whether she should be involuntarily hospitalized and treated. The last section of this article summarizes the main findings.2 Three different "stages" of Malka Magnesia disease2.1 Malka isolates herself in the atticThe first stage of Malka's disease, in which she isolates herself in the attic and refuses to go neither at school nor at work, at first glance it seems rather innocuous: it is mentioned that she is a political science student with an A...... half of the paper ......lized indefinitely (cf. Gray/O ' Reilly 2009). It would truly be like being incarcerated for the rest of her life, something usually reserved for serious criminals. Her treatment alone would likely improve her condition enough for her to be released. All in all, this alternative seems worse than involuntary medications. Works Cited Department of Justice (2010): Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/charter/1.html#anchorbo-ga:l_I. (Last retrieved: 7 December 2010). Gray, J. /O'Reilly, R. (2009): Supreme Court of Canada "Beautiful Mind" Case. In: International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, vol. 32, Number 5, pp. 315-322. Gupta, M. (2001): Treatment Refusal in the Involuntarily Hospitalized Psychiatric Population: Canadian Policy and Practice. In: Medicine and law, vol. 20, number 2, pp. 245-265.