Tomi Gomory

I have worked as a social work clinician/academic for over 30 years. In 2013 I co-authored, "Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs" a book that closely reviews psychiatry and critiques its efforts at addressing Madness through the Medical Model. I am currently examining the conventionally accepted use of coercion in social services. I've found that such coercive approaches are never better than voluntary ones with the added problem of teaching involuntary users/sufferers of social services that professionals who have power over them are to be obeyed and followed. This employment of force in the name of helping is convenient and useful for the authorities to exert social control but is antithetical to any meaningful ethical credo of the "helping" professions.