...straint, compulsory outpatient treatment, and other forms of [[psychiatric coercion]] have been used in many legal systems.
...more generally in medicine. Still other approaches concentrate on reducing coercion, strengthening due process, expanding supported decision-making, or creatin
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...and involuntary psychiatric treatment, with the aim of ending psychiatric coercion by making support, rather than compulsion, the default response when decisi
...h supported decision-making. The Committee states that forced treatment by psychiatric and other health professionals violates Article 12, and that States must re
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= The Rosenhan Pseudopatient Study, Its Unraveling, and Why the Case Against Coercion Never Needed It =
''This page is educational and historical. It is not medical, psychiatric, or legal advice.''
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= Why Psychiatric Coercion Persists After Human Rights Bodies Called for Its End =
...he UN human rights office called for laws that end coercive practices. Yet coercion continues, and in several wealthy countries its use has grown. A society th
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...commitment as two parts of one system, so removing one part while keeping psychiatric diversion and involuntary hospitalization restores neither responsibility n
...and the same evidence "can persuade a court to place a defendant who needs psychiatric care in a mental health facility rather than a prison." The Court added tha
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...urt-Ordered Psychiatric Treatment at Home Extends What Thomas Szasz Called Psychiatric Slavery =
...treated the outpatient order as one more form of an institution he called psychiatric slavery.
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...uestion whether medical categories describe that distress well, or whether psychiatric power is used fairly. These views come from psychiatry itself, from philoso
...ng defender of personal liberty and responsibility. He opposed involuntary psychiatric treatment and the insanity defense, while supporting voluntary, contractual
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...ity hall. Hearing voices is far more common in the general population than psychiatric diagnosis implies, and these groups show that mutual aid can do work that a
...attended group meetings. It also reports that many members continue to use psychiatric medication while others reduce or stop it.<ref name="who2021" />
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...cally homeless or who have higher levels of substance use, alcohol use, or psychiatric symptoms.
...tric coercion and the human rights gap|the human rights gap in psychiatric coercion]].
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* [[Supported decision-making as an alternative to coercion]] (October 19)
* [[Psychiatric coercion and the human rights gap]] (October 17)
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...Germany, Israel and elsewhere as a working example of crisis care without coercion.<ref name="bola2003" /><ref name="sevendays" />
...s, and no or low-dose antipsychotic medication taken by choice and without coercion.<ref name="calton" />
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...emmas, conflicts, and challenges inherent in human life. While traditional psychiatric and institutional medical models tend to classify psychological suffering,
* Resolving social conflicts through mediation rather than administrative coercion
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...iety, as well as of scientism. Szasz is affiliated with Scientology's anti-psychiatric organizations, though he does not belong to the church itself. He is well k
...efinition instead of being voted into existence by members of the American Psychiatric Association. Mental illnesses are "like a" disease, argues Szasz, putting m
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