Word: coercion
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...Lawrence of ect.org surveyed 41 former electroshock patients and found that 70% said the treatment had no effect on their depression. Joseph Rogers, executive director of the National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse, says 3 out of 4 of the electroshock patients he speaks with had negative experiences: coercion by psychiatrists, confusion, memory loss. Rogers and Lawrence don't want the treatment banned, but they believe few would undergo it if they knew all the risks beforehand...
...most attention. "This is more than a women issue," said a veteran U.S. investigator. "It's a political problem, an economic problem, a migration problem and most of all a question of human rights." One investigator familiar with the trade called it "modern day slavery with deception and coercion and violence at its core...
Although NAMBLA may not have created a pedophile in Jaynes, the organization does more harm than it claims. It does not condone violence or coercion, but it does advocate sex with young children. For example, some members believe boys as young as eight years old are capable of making their own choices whether or not to have consensual sex with an adult...
...union. What disappointed me at Yale, though, was the way those opposed to a union expressed their disagreement. The negative environment I described above did not need to accompany the union drive; it stemmed from attempts to shut down the union, not from attempts to organize it. Intimidation and coercion, not lux et veritas, seemed to be the university's motto...
...There was really a form of incredible coercion and violence towards women" before Roe v. Wade was passed, Paul said...