We would be no more responsible than someone who acted out of a psychological compulsion such as kleptomania, or who was a victim of addiction, hypnosis or the like.
Moderate to severe distress was observed when patients attempted to suppress or delay RB, a situation that corresponds to the criteria of compulsion such as those observed in anxious-type, non-tic related OCD.
First, the rationale for use of the Mental Health Act (and other legal means of compulsion such as the use of parental consent) for most of the respondents appears to be the protection of patient health and welfare, rather than patients' loss of competence to make treatment decisions.
Compulsions are repetitive behaviors such as hand-washing, ordering, checking, or mental acts (e.g., praying, counting, repeating words silently), the goal of which is to prevent or reduce anxiety or distress, not to provide pleasure or gratification.
Matters of compulsion cover such things as bodily needs for food, drink, and warmth.
Recently, I've covered subjects such as cleaning compulsions and OCD in teenagers.
Second, the group has been used successfully by health professionals attempting to aid in the reduction of numerous maladaptive lifestyle behaviors such as addictions, compulsions, and dependencies (e.g., gambling, alcohol, drug, and sexual addictions).
One effect of this discrepant attention is that it is sometimes difficult to determine what precise meaning earlier writers intended in their discussions of "coercion," as well as to decide whether "coercion" captures something different from or related to other frequently used terms, such as violence, compulsion, punishment, force, or interference.
Serial murderers are assumed to kill for motives such as sexual compulsion or even recreation.
In addition to the neurosis of hysteria, with its conversion of affective conflicts into bodily symptoms, Freud developed complicated etiological explanations for other typical neurotic behaviour, such as obsessive-compulsions, paranoia, and narcissism.
