coercion – A New Vision for Mental Health

Open-door policy versus treatment-as-usual in urban psychiatric inpatient wards: a pragmatic, randomised controlled, non-inferiority trial in Norway

Author: Editorial 11th March 2024 0 Comments

The abstract of this trial has been published in The Lancet Psychiatry: “Background Open-door policy is a recommended framework to reduce coercion in psychiatric wards. However, existing observational data might not fully capture potential increases in harm and use of coercion…
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coercion, in-patient experiences, inpatient mental health units, Norway, psychiatry, Research, The Lancet Psychiatry

Experiences of in-patient mental health services: systematic review

Author: Editorial 22nd January 2021 0 Comments

This review was published (by the Royal College of Psychiatrists) in the British Journal of Psychiatry: “Background: In-patients in crisis report poor experiences of mental healthcare not conducive to recovery. Concerns include coercion by staff, fear of assault from other patients,…
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collaborative practice

British Journal of Psychiatry, coercion, in-patient experiences, in-patients, Personalised Care, Research, Royal College of Psychiatrists

Stop Hurting, Start Helping

Author: Editorial 22nd August 2019 0 Comments

This 2 minute video clip points to the need for services to provide compassionate and thoughtful responses to people suffering the burden of trauma, and to be wary of perpetuating or recreating trauma through coercion, control and force. It features Indigo Daya,…
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Childhood trauma, coercion, coercive psychiatry, Indigo Daya, Mental health services, psychiatry, trauma, videos

Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs

Author: Editorial 31st July 2019 0 Comments

This book has been written by Stuart Kirk, Tomi Gomory and David Cohen. The publishers say: “Mad Science argues that the fundamental claims of modern American psychiatry are based on misconceived, flawed, and distorted science. The authors address multiple paradoxes in American…
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a coherent system

books, coercion, David Cohen, diagnosis, DSM, history of psychiatry, mad science, pharmaceutical drugs, Psychiatric Drugs, psychiatry, Stuart Kirk, Tomi Gomory

A Prescription for Psychiatry: Why We Need a Whole New Approach to Mental Health and Wellbeing

Author: Editorial 21st June 2019 0 Comments

This book has been written by Prof. Peter Kinderman. The publishers say that it: “… lays bare the flaws and failings of traditional mental health care and offers a radical alternative. Exposing the old-fashioned biological ‘disease model’ of psychiatry as unscientific…
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a wellbeing society

books, coercion, emotional distress, individual uniqueness of client and patient, medical model, Peter Kinderman, psychiatry, psychosocial factors

Are kindly and efficacious mental health services possible?

Author: Editorial 9th August 2018 0 Comments

Prof. David Pilgrim writes (in the Journal of Mental Health ): “The above question was explored by Peter Sedgwick in his classic text PsychoPolitics at the very moment when ‘anti-psychiatry’ was giving way to ‘critical psychiatry’ and the emergence of a New Social Movement…
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a coherent system

coercion, coercive psychiatry, David Pilgrim, Journal of Mental Health, Power Threat Meaning Framework, psychiatric diagnosis, psychiatry, recovery

Coercion in Community Mental Health Care: International Perspectives

Author: Editorial 12th July 2018 0 Comments

Coercion in Community Mental Health Care: International Perspectives, July 2016, edited by Andrew Molodynski, Jorun Rugkåsa and Tom Burns … The publishers say: “The use of coercion is one of the defining issues of mental health care. Since the earliest…
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collaborative practice

anthropology, books, coercion, coercive psychiatry, community mental healthcare, history, law, medicine, sociology