I will try and analyze why mental health users and survivors are listened to but not heard and the frustrations this engenders in not only users and survivors but our allies in the system who also want radical change from coercion to co-operation which would be better for everyone's mental health.
We prefer co-operation to coercion: it's one of those "Guardian values" we like to claim makes us different from other places.
But the fact that an international order based on co-operation rather than coercion was, then as now, an elusive dream, does not obviate the merits of working towards it.
Reports have surfaced of spurious medicines, unclean surgical instruments, women not being examined before the operation, and even of coercion into the camp.
Some theorists argue that careful consideration of notions such as reciprocity, coercion, or fair terms of co-operation mandate that we give special weighting to the interests of compatriots.
Abu Ghraib was not the work of a few bad apples, but the direct consequence, Hersh says, of "the reliance of George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld on secret operations and the use of coercion -- and eye-for-an-eye retribution -- in fighting terrorism".
The process is closer to coercion.
The lawyer of convicted double murderer Kamal Reddy has alleged the Mr Big operation may fall within the realm of coercion, after it was revealed undercover police used the method in his client's case.
Co-operation from the side and from below mattered as much as coercion from above.
Judge Dennis G. Jacobs, in a 50-page opinion for a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, wrote, "While the sting operation in this case was elaborate and prolonged, there was no coercion or physical force, and nothing done was outrageous or a shock to the conscience".
