UN: Defining torture; cruel, inhuman & degrading treatment
http://www.narpa.org/reference/un-forced-psychiatric-treatment-is-torture

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/un-human-rights-council-condemns-forced-psychiatric-practices-300714249.html
https://rm.coe.int/16807001c3
https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/advice-and-guidance-human-rights-multipage-guide/right-be-free-torture-or-cruel-inhuman-or-degrading
https://www.hrw.org/news/2010/01/20/torture-and-cruel-treatment-health-settings#PsychiatricInstitutions
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Associated ideas
https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100414515;jsessionid=8DE3A4303DF476C580FB1E86F0DC7491
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Tina Minkowitz and the Campaign to Support Absolute Prohibition of Commitment and Forced Treatment
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"In times of public fear, some human rights become a privilege of the non-scary, or if one prefers, of the 'respectable section of society'.... The scary, by contrast, have to deal with a contested freedom." 

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https://www.absoluteprohibition.org/jolijn-santegoeds-why-forced-psychiatric-treatment-must-be-prohibited/

"Coercion works countereffective to wellbeing, and leads... to despair, fear, anger and grief for the person concerned.
 During coercion the voice of the person is ignored, and their boundaries are not respected. 
Coercion does not lead to more safety, or recovery of mental health. On the contrary: By suffering, powerlessness, and a lack of support, the risks for increasing psychosocial problems and escalation increase. 
Coercion is the opposite of care."

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https://www.absoluteprohibition.org/all-for-the-best-of-the-patient-dorrit-cato-christensen/

"After reading the chart notes, I realize that coercion, both overt and covert, plays a much greater role in treatment than I had ever imagined."

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https://www.absoluteprohibition.org/we-are-not-violating-the-human-rights-yes-you-are-by-anne-grethe-teien/

In a research summary on possible harms from forced psychiatry done by nurse and researcher Reidun Norvoll, she listed the following main categories:  
1) violation of autonomy and of psychological and physical integrity. Deprivation of freedom of movement (deprivation of freedom).
 2) Physical harm and death. 
3) Violence and abuse. 
4) Trauma, retraumatisation and posttraumatic stress syndrome. 
5) Offences/violations, loss of dignity and experiences of punishment.
 6) Psychological agony in the forms of shame, anxiety, feeling unsafe, anger, powerlessness, depression and loss of self esteem. 
7) Social problems  and loss of social identity. 
8) Loss of access to own coping skills and of possibilities to self development. 9) Loss of access to voluntary treatment. 
10) Harmed therapeutic relationships, resentment against- and distrust in mental health services. 

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https://www.absoluteprohibition.org/sarah-knutson-rethinking-public-safety-the-case-for-100-voluntary/


“Hey you radicals mental illness is a physical illness that requires the attention of a specially trained medical doctor if don’t like the treatment leave for a dessert[sic] island where you can suffer without disturbing others”

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https://www.absoluteprohibition.org/madnessfollia-by-roberta-gelsomino/
"If only you had the tact, according to the Hippocratic oath,
you would propose other solutions to my needs,
even stronger, and not blackmail."

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https://www.absoluteprohibition.org/in-italy-we-dont-have-a-law-against-torture-by-erveda-sansi/
"The 12 nurses were acquitted because 'they obeyed an order'."


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https://www.absoluteprohibition.org/12-trucs-que-croient-les-psychiatres12-things-psychiatrists-believe-by-pink-belette/


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https://www.absoluteprohibition.org/linda-steele-challenging-laws-monopoly-on-violence/
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https://www.absoluteprohibition.org/question-man-by-irit-shimrat/

https://www.absoluteprohibition.org/i-will-never-forget-by-irit-shimrat/

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https://www.absoluteprohibition.org/poetry-and-art-by-jhilmil-breckenridge/

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Phoebe Sparrow Wagner

https://phoebesparrowwagner.com/2018/02/11/institute-of-living-2013-torture-and-illegal-confinement-part-2/

https://phoebesparrowwagner.com/category/seclusion-and-restraints/

https://phoebesparrowwagner.com/2018/07/26/staff-personality-disorder/


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Leonard Roy Frank

https://web.archive.org/web/20120302035657/http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/psychiatrys-unholy-trinity-fraud-fear-and-force-a-personal-account/

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Psychiatry & The State
https://www.hrw.org/news/2010/01/20/torture-and-cruel-treatment-health-settings#PsychiatricInstitutions

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https://www.wbur.org/podcasts/endlessthread/tag/madness

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https://www.hrw.org/news/2005/11/02/china-political-prisoner-exposes-brutality-police-run-mental-hospital

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1341504/pdf/bmjcred00251-0003.pdf

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Sarah Hegazy {*move down w/ State of the global queer}

https://www.tassc.org/news-blog/2020/6/18/egyptian-woman-tortured-for-waving-a-rainbow-flag-commits-suicide

https://www.madamasr.com/en/2020/06/15/opinion/u/a-year-after-the-rainbow-flag-controversy/

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https://www.hrw.org/report/2004/02/29/time-torture/assault-justice-egypts-crackdown-homosexual-conduct


I'll tell you something.  Some things that happen in your life you can forget.  And there are some things that you can never forget, even for one minute.  

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*Move*-- State of the global queer
Masha Gessen

https://search.library.ucla.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?context=L&vid=01UCS_LAL:UCLA&search_scope=UCSDiscoveryNetwork&tab=UCSDiscoveryNetwork&docid=alma9948019913606533

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/15/life-as-out-gay-russia
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https://ilga.org/sites/default/files/downloads/ENG_ILGA_World_map_sexual_orientation_laws_dec2020.png
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Conversion Therapy
https://www.ohchr.org/en/stories/2020/07/conversion-therapy-can-amount-torture-and-should-be-banned-says-un-expert
https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100414515;jsessionid=8DE3A4303DF476C580FB1E86F0DC7491
https://serval.unil.ch/resource/serval:BIB_37789.P001/REF.pdf

https://journals.openedition.org/rhei/4177#tocto2n3

https://www.persee.fr/doc/psy_0003-5033_1942_num_43_1_7954

https://regardconscient.net/earchives/0803educonsent.html

https://regardconscient.net/earchives/1303driftofpsychology.html

https://www.naturalchild.org/articles/alice_miller/roots_violence.html
Christendom
https://www.absoluteprohibition.org/eveline-zenith-freedom-from-religion/
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