Tag: Psychiatry

  • Use of Coercive Measures in Psychiatry: the case of Denmark

    Denial of being listened to including in very personal matters, subjected to the use of force against oneself, coercion, deprivation of liberty, and bodily and mental harm or abuse are subjects one does not readily experience. After all, it just does not happen except for the very rare instance of assault, kidnapping, and such criminal…

  • Minority Mental Health Month: Time for American Psychiatric Association to Disavow Slave-Owning “Father of Psychiatry”?

    … transgressions go far beyond the human rights abuse of enslaving another human … him? The Citizens Commission on Human Rights International traveling exhibit has been … . Anne Goedeke Citizens Commission on Human Rights, National Office +1 202-349 …

  • La OMS quiere acabar con las violaciones de DDHH en la psiquiatría

    Los servicios de atención a la salud mental en Europa y en todo el mundo se siguen prestando principalmente en pabellones y hospitales psiquiátricos. Como está documentando The European Times, los abusos de los derechos humanos y las prácticas coercitivas en estos centros son habituales. La Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), en un nuevo…

  • Patients see psychiatric restraints as torture

    The widespread use of a variety of coercive measures in psychiatry has a strong and traumatic impact on patients. Stronger than the psychiatric staff actually believe. The European Times reported that studies have looked at the patient’s viewpoints of the use of coercion in psychiatric services. In a 2016 study by Paul McLaughlin of the…

  • 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…

  • Council of Europe in big controversy on human rights abuse

    A Committee of the Council of Europe is about to complete the work on a possible new legal instrument, that if approved will authorize states the continued use of practises deemed a violation of human rights by the United Nations. This include such practices as locking up persons or forcing certain medications on people, stated…

  • Council of Europe wants to enforce harmful coercive psychiatric treaments – UN experts oppose

    Independent UN human rights experts called on Friday for a European body of intergovernmental experts to stop legislation supporting coercive mental health measures. 

  • 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…