If forced treatment amounts to torture, how can it legally – and morally – be retained?

Mad in Ireland: Mental health systems the world over use coercion as a technology of control—a mechanism to enforce compliance with treatment deemed “medically necessary” by psychiatric professionals. Coercive measures within mental health systems include involuntary detention, forced medication, seclusion, and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). However, as an understanding of human rights has expanded, and as the voices of those with lived experience has gained prominence, it has become increasingly clear that such practices can inflict profound harm—psychological, emotional and physical.

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  1. Psychiatric torture is human sacrifice in modern garb , of which the sociological agenda has been articulated. Humans are exploitative predators. The only true solution must come from within as a desire to do no harm and to turn and face the predators, rather than be like zebras who keep running.

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