English A series of recent court decisions have been concerned with the compulsory
treatment of patients with mental disorders who are incapable of giving consent. This article …

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 …

Actions performed in a state of automatism are not subject to moral evaluation, while
automatic actions often are. Is the asymmetry between automatistic and automatic actions …

In psychiatry, caregivers try to get free and informed consent of patients, but often feel
required to restrict freedom and to use coercion. The present article develops ethical advice …

Autonomy is a fundamental though contested concept. For instance, most of us place great
value on the opportunity to make our own decisions and to be able to lead a life of our own …

Health professionals faced with refusal of life-saving treatment may wish to override a
person's wishes, especially if that person suffers from a mental disorder. Mental illness does …

Mental health patients are denied authority over treatment decisions far more often than
patients with other types of disorders. Only psychiatric patients are routinely subjected to …

We explore whether we can reduce paternalism by increasing patient autonomy. We argue
that autonomy should not have any automatic priority over other ethical values. Thus …

Though coercion is widely used in psychiatry, both in terms of involuntary hospital
admissions and coercive treatment, little is known about the effects of coercing patients. In …

Pre-commitment directives or Ulysses contracts are often defended as instruments that may
strengthen the autonomous self-control of episodically disordered psychiatric patients …