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Coercion

“Self-Determination is the Pathway to Liberation” Alternative Mental Health Crisis Response in the United States, by Human Rights Watch, Center for Racial and Disability Justice, and New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, March 2026.
Abolition: Is this the only pathway to upholding human rights and ensuring epistemic justice in psychiatry? A key informant qualitative study, by Cath Roper, Nina Joffee-Kohn, Vrinda Edan, Natasha Swingler, Piers Gooding, and Bridget Hamilton, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry: 104 (2026) 102160.
A Danger to Self and Others: Health and Criminal Consequences of Involuntary Hospitalization, by Natalia Emanuel, Pim Welle, Valentin Bolotnyy, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, July, 2025.
When Psychiatric Services Become a Waiting Room: Situational Analysis of Involuntary Commitment and Treatment as Experienced by Patients and Nurses, by Pierre Pariseau-Legault, David Pelosse, Emmanuelle Bernheim, Marie-Hélène Goulet, Guillaume Ouellet, Lisandre Labrecque-Lebeau, Jean-Daniel Jacob, and Dave Holmes, Clinical Nursing ResearchVolume 34, Issue 3-4, May 2025, Pages 168-178.
Debate Essay: Coercive Measures in Psychiatry Can Hardly Be Justified in Principle Any Longer-Ethico-Legal Requirements Versus Empirical Research Data and Conceptual Issues, by Dirk Richter, Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 2025; 32:461-466.
Public Attitudes Toward Mental Health Treatment Policy, by Morgan C. Shields, PhD; Nev Jones, PhD; Shyamal Sharma, MPH; Susan H. Busch, PhD, JAMA Network Open (2025).
A Danger to Self and Others: Health and Criminal Consequences of Involuntary Hospitalization, by Natalia Emanuel, Pim Welle, and Valentin Bolotnyy, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, July, 2025.
Evidence on Involuntary Behavioral Health Treatment, April, 2024.
Report on Improving Mental Health Outcomes, September, 2023.
Effect of Psychiatric Advance Directives Facilitated by PeerWorkers on Compulsory Admission Among People With Mental Illness A Randomized Clinical Trial, by Aurélie Tinland, MD, PhD; Sandrine Loubière, PhD; Frederic Mougeot, PhD; Emmanuelle Jouet, PhD; Magali Pontier, MD; Karine Baumstarck, MD, PhD; Anderson Loundou, PhD; Nicolas Franck, MD, PhD; Christophe Lançon, MD, PhD; Pascal Auquier,MD, PhD; for the DAiP Group, JAMA Psychiatry (2022).
Incidences of Involuntary Psychiatric Detentions in 25 U.S. States, by Gi Lee, M.S.W., and David Cohen, M.S.W., Ph.D., Psychiatric Services 72:1, January 2021.
Community Inclusion and Social Determinants: From Opportunity to Health, by Mark S. Salzer, Ph.D., Psychiatric Services 72:7, July 2021.
Well Together - A blueprint for community inclusion: fundamental concepts, theoretical frameworks and evidence, by Mark Salzer and Richard Baron (2016)
A Client Perspective of Mental Health Courts and the Use of Force and Coercion, by Pat Risser, 2014.
Disturbing findings about the risk of suicide and psychiatric hospitals, by Matthew M. Large and Christopher J. Ryan, Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol (2014). 49:1353–1355