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Editorial
. 2015 Oct;14(3):259-61.
doi: 10.1002/wps.20264.

Compulsion and "coercion" in mental health care

George Szmukler  1
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Editorial

Compulsion and "coercion" in mental health care

George Szmukler. World Psychiatry. 2015 Oct.
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