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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…

5 June 2021 · 4 min read

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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…

3 June 2021 · 4 min read