Background: Questions concerning non-consensual treatment in mental health services
have assumed an increased salience. In significant part, this has been due to changes in …

“Compulsion” in mental health care is a reasonably straightforward notion: the use of force,
one hopes always governed by law, to make a person accept treatment that has been …

Coercive practices are relatively common in mental healthcare, but coercion is ethically
problematic because it involves acting against an individual's autonomy. However, coercion …

Objective: This study systematically examined the empirical literature on the themes and
correlates of coercion as defined by the subjective experience of patients in psychiatric care …

AimsTo examine the extent and nature of coercive practices in mental healthcare and to
consider the ethical, human rights challenges facing the current clinical practices in this …

Purpose Some patients criticize coercive mental health treatment using extremely strong
words. This may be connected to poor therapeutic relationships and unfavourable treatment …

This article draws on observations from ethnographic fieldwork to develop a theoretical
understanding of the power dynamics in psychiatric care. The aim is to analyze how …

The dominant rights‐based approach to the ethics of coercion in psychiatric treatment
guides clinicians in deciding whether treatment should be compelled or the patient's …

Despite a long-standing tradition of the use of coercion in psychiatric care, such as
involuntary admission and treatment, few have systematically addressed this issue. In recent …

Although coercive measures have always been part of the psychiatric armamentarium, the
ethical dilemma between the use of a “therapeutic” coercion and the loss of patients' dignity …