Coercion in Psychiatry   maryBy Mary Maddock  Coercion in
Psychiatry  You would think people who study medicine would see
that a young woman who had a difficult pregnancy, a very long
labour, deprived of sleep and who had received an excessive
amount of nitrous oxide would enter an altered state of
conscious as a NORMAL reaction.  You would also think they would
ask some questions to find out why this happened before whisking
this woman off in a ambulance to a psychiatric hospital at 80 or
90 miles an hour but that might be too much to ask from a
profession who is not in the habit of asking questions!  You
would think that having made this tragic mistake, having tried
out neuroleptic treatment and following it with electroshock,
this was admitting that psychotropic drugs do not work, as
electroshock is only supposed to be given when drugs are a
failure!  You would never believe then their next solution was
that this same person received multi drug treatment for 20 years
later but this was the way an unthinkin