Coercion in psychiatric care may cause long-term negative effects such as trauma, reluctance to seek later treatment, as well as erosion of self-confidence and trust in one’s own feelings and thoughts. Based on data from a previous study and the theoretical framework developed by Hans Skjervheim, this article discusses how experiences with coercion may appear as a result of how the patients are approached and defined when involuntarily admitted. If patients admitted to involuntary psychiatric care are treated as objects they might respond by objectifying the professionals back or succumbing to the descriptions of themselves as sick. The latter may ultimately cause them to question their own sanity. In light of this, this paper argues that there is a need for an ongoing ethical discussion on how to find common ground between patients and health care workers, where both are viewed as subjects with knowledge and opinions worthy of respect.

精神病治疗中的胁迫可能会导致长期的负面影响，例如创伤、不愿寻求以后的治疗，以及自信心和对自己感觉和想法的信任的侵蚀。基于先前研究的数据和 Hans Skjervheim 开发的理论框架，本文讨论了强迫经历如何作为非自愿入院时如何接近和定义患者的结果。如果接受非自愿精神病治疗的患者被视为客体，他们可能会通过将专业人士物化或屈服于自己生病的描述来做出回应。后者可能最终导致他们质疑自己的理智。有鉴于此，