Coercive Treatment in Psychiatry: Clinical, legal and ethical aspects

List of Contributors vii

Introduction xi
Thomas W. Kallert, Juan E. Mezzich and John Monahan

SECTION 1 Conceptual and clinical aspects of coercive treatment 1

1. Person-centred psychiatry perspectives on coercion and cooperation 3
Juan E. Mezzich

2. Coercive treatment and stigma – is there a link? 13
Wolfgang Gaebel and Harald Zaske

3. Mandated psychiatric treatment in the community – forms, prevalence, outcomes and controversies 33
John Monahan

4. Is it possible to define a best practice standard for coercive treatment in psychiatry? 49
Tilman Steinert and Peter Lepping

5. How to de-escalate a risk situation to avoid the use of coercion 57
Dirk Richter

SECTION 2 Legal aspects of coercive treatment 81

6. Psychiatry and the law – do the fields agree in their views on coercive treatment? 83
Julio Arboleda-Florez

7. Reducing discrimination in mental health law – the 'fusion' of incapacity and mental health legislation 97
George Szmukler and John Dawson

8. Mental health care and patients' rights – are these two fields currently compatible? 121
Thomas W. Kallert

SECTION 3 Ethical aspects of coercive treatment 151

9. Cross-cultural perspectives on coercive treatment in psychiatry 153
Ahmed Okasha and Tarek Okasha

10. Historical injustice in psychiatry with examples from Nazi Germany and others – ethical
lessons for the modern professional 161
Rael Strous

11. Paternalism in mental health – when boots are superior to Pushkin 175
Tom Burns

SECTION 4 Users' views on coercive treatment 185

12. The moral imperative for dialogue with organizations of survivors of coerced psychiatric human rights violations 187
David W. Oaks

13. Resisting variables – service user/survivor perspectives on researching coercion 213
Jasna Russo and Jan Wallcraft

14. Seventy years of coercion in psychiatric institutions, experienced and witnessed 235
Dorothea S. Buck-Zerchin

15. Coercion – point, perception, process 245
Dorothy M. Castille, Kristina H. Muenzenmaier and Bruce G. Link

SECTION 5 Coercion and undue influence in decisions to participate in psychiatric research 269

16. Ethical issues of participating in psychiatric research on coercion 271
Lars Kjellin

17. Coercion and undue influence in decisions to participate in psychiatric research 293
Paul S. Appelbaum, Charles W. Lidz and Robert Klitzman

Index 315