coercion
08/02/2017
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By Amy Goodrich
Experts blast growing trend of “coercive psychiatry” where people are pharmacologically imprisoned without evidence or trial
Psychiatry is an ancient phenomenon with an invasive and brutal history. In the past, the mentally ill were strapped to their beds and doctors performed lobotomies and electroconvulsive therapy in the hope to improve a patient’s mental state. As asylums closed in the 1970s and 1980s, old brutal practices and the use of coercion in […]
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