Coercive Treatment in Psychiatry

Professor Kallert has been active in the field of mental health services research for many years. He was co-ordinator of the EC-funded research project, European evaluation of coercion in psychiatry and harmonisation of best clinical practice (EUNOMIA). He has published 6 books, more than 35 chapters in books, and more than 125 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He has received the Hermann-Simon-Prize for Social Psychiatry, and the Hans-Heimann-Prize of the German Society of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurosciences. He is an Honorary Member of the World Psychiatric Association. Dr. Mezzich was Chair of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Section on Classification and Diagnostic Assessment, and a member of the ICD-10 Mental Disorders Workgroup and the DSM-IV Task Force. He has authored over 200 scientific journal articles and book chapters and 25 books and monographs primarily on psychiatric diagnosis and epidemiology from clinical, philosophical, statistical, and cultural perspectives and more recently on person-centered psychiatry and medicine. He has received six Honorary Doctorates from universities in the Americas and Europe as well as the Simon Bolivar Award of the American Psychiatric Association, the Medal for Extraordinary Merit of the Medical Council of Peru, and the Linneaus Medal of Uppsala University in Sweden. He is President of the InternationalNetwork for Person-centered Medicine. Professor Monahan is well known internationally for his numerous publications and presentations in mental health law, for his leadership of the MacArthur Research Network on Violence, Coercion and Competence and of the current MacArthur Research Network on Mandated Treatment in the Community, and for his generous support and encouragement of scholars in coercion and in all areas of mental health law.

List of Contributors vii Introduction xi Thomas W. Kallert, Juan E. Mezzich and John Monahan SECTION 1 Conceptual and clinical aspects of coercive treatment 1 1. Person-centred psychiatry perspectives on coercion and cooperation 3 Juan E. Mezzich 2. Coercive treatment and stigma -- is there a link? 13 Wolfgang Gaebel and Harald Zaske 3. Mandated psychiatric treatment in the community -- forms, prevalence, outcomes and controversies 33 John Monahan 4. Is it possible to define a best practice standard for coercive treatment in psychiatry? 49 Tilman Steinert and Peter Lepping 5. How to de-escalate a risk situation to avoid the use of coercion 57 Dirk Richter SECTION 2 Legal aspects of coercive treatment 81 6. Psychiatry and the law -- do the fields agree in their views on coercive treatment? 83 Julio Arboleda-Florez 7. Reducing discrimination in mental health law -- the 'fusion' of incapacity and mental health legislation 97 George Szmukler and John Dawson 8. Mental health care and patients' rights -- are these two fields currently compatible? 121 Thomas W. Kallert SECTION 3 Ethical aspects of coercive treatment 151 9. Cross-cultural perspectives on coercive treatment in psychiatry 153 Ahmed Okasha and Tarek Okasha 10. Historical injustice in psychiatry with examples from Nazi Germany and others -- ethical lessons for the modern professional 161 Rael Strous 11. Paternalism in mental health -- when boots are superior to Pushkin 175 Tom Burns SECTION 4 Users' views on coercive treatment 185 12. The moral imperative for dialogue with organizations of survivors of coerced psychiatric human rights violations 187 David W. Oaks 13. Resisting variables -- service user/survivor perspectives on researching coercion 213 Jasna Russo and Jan Wallcraft 14. Seventy years of coercion in psychiatric institutions, experienced and witnessed 235 Dorothea S. Buck-Zerchin 15. Coercion -- point, perception, process 245 Dorothy M. Castille, Kristina H. Muenzenmaier and Bruce G. Link SECTION 5 Coercion and undue influence in decisions to participate in psychiatric research 269 16. Ethical issues of participating in psychiatric research on coercion 271 Lars Kjellin 17. Coercion and undue influence in decisions to participate in psychiatric research 293 Paul S. Appelbaum, Charles W. Lidz and Robert Klitzman Index 315