… , from the intimate and informal confines of the … coercion in psychiatric treatment are based
on the patients’ legal status, but legal status is only a crude proxy for experienced coercion …

… of relevant literature and personal correspondence with experts in the field. The evidence
base is relatively small but is expanding. It has been demonstrated that informal coercion is …

… people to enter addiction treatment are highly relevant to present-day treatment systems. …
informal social network pressures in experiences of coercion is more complex. While informal …

… Coerced admission might select a specific group of severely ill patients in whom social factors,
but not the clinical diagnosis are relevant … , if the coercion is implemented through informal …

… being coerced while inpatient seems of utmost relevance. A deeper understanding of how
… Indeed, professionals frequently use rules and routines as a means of informally coercing …

… influence of perceived coercion. Interventions aiming at engagement in or adherence to
treatment may include various forms of pressure, formal or informal coercion, which may lead to …

… and treatment of mentally ill persons, it seems relevant to point out that legal justification may
… wants to leave hospital, and ethically he is informal and can refuse treatment, they have a …

… , we need a more precise understanding of “coercion”(1). Most accepted is the definition
proposed by Wertheimer (2), who includes “threats” as coercive. A “threat” is a conditional …

… non-malfience14 also becomes relevant. When considering the ‘harms’ of … coercion in
patients, although a quarter of all patients admitted informally to hospital also experience coercive …

… descriptions of experiences of formal or informal coercion. … However, insights from this study
may be relevant to other … experiences with phenomena of relevance to the research question…