… We need to tackle this dynamic if we want to reduce coercion in psychiatric care. … For
example, the importance we place on rights like autonomy in contemporary society helps to explain …

… Coercive measures in psychiatric patients have therefore been high on the European
agenda for quite some time. The other aspect is the notion of non-maleficence (do no harm), …

… coercion is widely used in psychiatry, both in terms of involuntary hospital admissions and
coercive treatment, … The justification for the use of coercion is basically a belief that coercion …

… 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 autonomy …

… ranges between full autonomy and formal coercion that is … comprehensive digest on informal
coercion in mental health-… prevalence of treatment pressures and informal coercion and the …

… is even more common in psychiatric care. In fact, psychiatry is the only discipline where
coercion in care can be legal and state-sanctioned. Although autonomous decision-making is …

… The second is the notion that suicide is so repugnant that it should be considered outside
the scope of autonomous decision making, and that where persons are ‘at high risk of suicide’, …

… of autonomy.As the practice of medicine has evolved, the principle of autonomy has become
… By definition, coercion and compulsion sit in opposition to autonomy and informed choice13 …

… are said to "quite uniformly believe it is used far more as a means of controlling behavior
that is unacceptable to the prison administration than as a means of relieving psychiatric …