An ethical analysis of contemporary use of coercive persuasion (“brainwashing”, “mind control”) in psychiatry
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Søren Ventegodt, MD, MMedSci, EU-MScCAM, Niels Jørgen Andersen, MSc and Isack Kandel, MA, PhD Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark; Research Clinic for Holistic Medicine Nordic School of Holistic Medicine, Copenhagen, Denmark; Scandinavian Foundation for Holistic Medicine, Sandvika, Norway; Interuniversity College, Graz, Austria; Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Behavioral Sciences, Ariel University Center of Samaria, Ariel, Israel
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