TY - JOUR PY - 1993// TI - Inclusion, motivation, and good faith: The morality of coercion in mental hospital admission JO - Behavioral sciences and the law A1 - Bennett, Nancy S. A1 - Lidz, Charles W. A1 - Monahan, John A1 - Mulvey, Edward P. A1 - Hoge, Steven K. A1 - Roth, Loren H. A1 - Gardner, William SP - 295 EP - 306 VL - 11 IS - 3 N2 - We administered a semi-structured interview to 157 patients shortly after their admission to a psychiatric hospital. In the first, and open-ended, part of the interview, patients were asked to talk about what had been going on in their lives that led to their coming into the hospital. Then, in a more structured format, they were asked more specific details about who was involved, the patients' relationships with those involved, whether any attempts were made to influence the patient to come into the hospital, and whether such attempts were perceived as fair by the patient. This article presents a qualitative review of the transcripts of a subset of these interviews. It attends specifically to patients' perceptions of the morality of attempts by others--primarily family members, friends and mental health professionals--to influence them to be admitted to the hospital, and of the morality of the process by which these influence attempts resulted in admission.

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