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  • European psychiatry in bad shape

    The use of coercion and force continue to be common practice in European psychiatry despite efforts to decrease their use. Recent studies have looked at the patient’s viewpoints of the mental health services. In one study from 2016 retrospective views of patients towards their admission and length of psychiatric hospital stay were analyzed. The study…

  • Use of coercion and force is widespread in psychiatry

    The still legally accepted possibility of using coercion and force in psychiatry is a very controversial issue. It is not only widespread but indicators and statistics from various European countries show it is increasing. More and more people are being subjected to coercive psychiatric interventions. The phenomena that one would believe is only applied in…

  • Mental health in crisis

    Friday (28 May 2021) United Nations human rights experts called upon the Council of Europe to withdraw a possible new legal instrument that would maintain an approach to mental health policy and practice that is based on coercion, which is incompatible with contemporary human rights principles and standards. The United Nations experts who are having extensive expertise…

  • Legacy of Holocaust hides in the shadows of German Psychiatry, documentary

    There are few alive today who do not know the incomprehensible horrors of the Holocaust. But while most know the devastating loss of life it incurred, few genuinely understand who was responsible for its design. In Nazi Germany, psychiatrists were the architects of mass murder, applying euthanasia techniques pioneered in their public facilities at scale…