Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Professor Kallert has been active in the field of mentalhealth services research for many years. He was co-ordinatorof the EC-funded research project, European evaluation of coercionin psychiatry and harmonisation of best clinical practice(EUNOMIA). He has published 6 books, more than 35 chapters inbooks, and more than 125 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He hasreceived the Hermann-Simon-Prize for Social Psychiatry, and theHans-Heimann-Prize of the German Society of Psychiatry,Psychotherapy and Neurosciences. He is an Honorary Member ofthe World Psychiatric Association. Dr. Mezzich was Chair of the World PsychiatricAssociation (WPA) Section on Classification and DiagnosticAssessment, and a member of the ICD-10 Mental Disorders Workgroupand the DSM-IV Task Force. He has authored over 200 scientificjournal articles and book chapters and 25 books and monographsprimarily on psychiatric diagnosis and epidemiology from clinical,philosophical, statistical, and cultural perspectives and morerecently on person-centered psychiatry and medicine. He hasreceived six Honorary Doctorates from universities in the Americasand Europe as well as the Simon Bolivar Award of the AmericanPsychiatric Association, the Medal for Extraordinary Merit of theMedical Council of Peru, and the Linneaus Medal of UppsalaUniversity in Sweden. He is President of the InternationalNetworkfor Person-centered Medicine. Professor Monahan is well known internationally for hisnumerous publications and presentations in mental health law, forhis leadership of the MacArthur Research Network on Violence,Coercion and Competence and of the current MacArthur ResearchNetwork on Mandated Treatment in the Community, and for hisgenerous support and encouragement of scholars in coercion and inall areas of mental health law.

Reviews

Summing up then, this is a rich and valuable collection.It comes at a time when ideas about both coercion and treatment arebeing revised, and in addition to raising more practical andpolicy-related challenges, it demonstrates important philosophicalissues requiring further attention. (MetapsychologyOnline, 23 April 2013)