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(Committee on Government Policy, Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. No. 137.) 133 pp. Washington, D.C., American Psychiatric Press, 1994. $23. ISBN 0-87318-205-7.

Forced into Treatment eloquently examines the interface between patients' rights and their need for treatment. We are invited to see that the element of coercion does not preclude a successful outcome; it may in fact be integral to success in certain cases. In various countries around the world, psychiatrists and other physicians have acted as arms of the state by exercising social control -- from torture to confinement. In those situations the government is no longer the protector of its citizens, nor is the medical establishment to be trusted. In the human-rights field, it is generally felt that any psychiatric . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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