Coercive treatment in psychiatry: a comprehensive review. Reflections on the Dresden WPA Thematic Conference, June 2007
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Address: 1President, World Psychiatry Association, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NYU, 5th Avenue & 100th Street, Box 1091 New York, New York 10029-6574, USA, 2Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Dresden, Fetscherstrasse 74, D-01307 Dresden Germany and 3Parkkrankenhaus Leipzig-Südost, Klinik für Psychiatrie, Morawitzstrasse 2, D-04289 Leipzig, Germany * Corresponding author
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