Article Related content Article metrics Rapid responses Response Rapid Response: Re: Is psychiatry becoming more coercive? In this Greek public psychiatric hospital, patients were systematically tied to their beds, locked, abandoned, even for years! They even tied up autistic patients! During a recent fire, 3 of them were burned alive, unable to escape. Reports show that restraint is still commonly used in Greek psychiatric wards. Nowhere in Europe and the World such deplorable coercive treatment conditions are allowed, that the UN argues constitute torture. References http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8124976.stm http://www.ekathimerini.com/201947/article/ekathimerini/news/fourth-pati... http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2015/09/04/fire-in-athens-psychiatric-h... http://greece.greekreporter.com/2015/09/04/three-people-dead-in-greek-ps... Competing interests: No competing interests 13 July 2017 Stavros Saripanidis Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology Kalamaria, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Re: Is psychiatry becoming more coercive?
In this Greek public psychiatric hospital, patients were systematically tied to their beds, locked, abandoned, even for years!
They even tied up autistic patients!
During a recent fire, 3 of them were burned alive, unable to escape.
Reports show that restraint is still commonly used in Greek psychiatric wards.
Nowhere in Europe and the World such deplorable coercive treatment conditions are allowed, that the UN argues constitute torture.
References
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8124976.stm
http://www.ekathimerini.com/201947/article/ekathimerini/news/fourth-pati...
http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2015/09/04/fire-in-athens-psychiatric-h...
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2015/09/04/three-people-dead-in-greek-ps...
Competing interests: No competing interests