State-of-the-art clinical psychiatry seeks to provide successful treatment of persons with
mental illness in a comprehensive approach integrating biological, psychological, social …

Compulsory treatment in psychiatry : Current Opinion in Psychiatry Compulsory treatment in
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Professors Sashidharan and Saraceno raise an important question in their recent editorial
(1),“Is psychiatry becoming more coercive?”. In this piece the authors note several striking …

Mental health has become a global imperative. Increasing coverage of treatment options
and support services is crucial. However, without deep reflection and change in paradigm …

The WPA wishes to spur progress worldwide in implementing alternatives to coercion in
mental health care. Agreement is widespread among psychiatrists, other health practitioners …

Within the last three to four decades, the provision of mental health care has changed
dramatically. Community-orientated services could be seen as the main conceptual …

The use of involuntary treatment in psychiatry comes with some benefits and many
disadvantages for the patient's experience and the therapeutic outcome. This review …

Objective This study explores patients' preferences and measures of prevention of coercive
methods in psychiatric treatment. Methods Structured interviews of 90 patients with psychotic …

The mental health system's standard treatments are colossally counterproductive and
harmful, often forced on unwilling patients. The overreliance on psychiatric drugs is reducing …

Informed consent to medical treatment is generally presumed to be central to the provision of
good quality health care. Despite this presumption, legislation exists in many countries that …