Coercive measures are still widespread in mental health care. They burden not only the affected persons, but also their relatives with feelings of guilt and lack of confidence in the success of professional help. The article gives some arguments why organizations of relatives have advocated the abolition of coercion from the beginning.

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Coercion in Psychiatry and the Position of Families

  • Friedrich Leidinger,
  • Manuel Gatterer

摘要

Coercive measures are still widespread in mental health care. They burden not only the affected persons, but also their relatives with feelings of guilt and lack of confidence in the success of professional help. The article gives some arguments why organizations of relatives have advocated the abolition of coercion from the beginning.