Coercive measures place a burden on all parties involved: those with psychiatric experience, relatives, and professionals. Nevertheless, restraints and forced medication continue to occur in clinical practice. These issues have been pressing long before the Mollath case. Therefore, measures for prevention and reduction are in demand. This book describes how prevention, reduction, and alternatives can be implemented in practice and how conflicts can be avoided. The essays by experts from research and practice address various topics, including: basic and initial conditions, current case law, human rights and new legislation, the epidemiology of coercive measures in psychiatry, knowledge about coercion and violence, violence and substance use, attitudes and structural measures, open dialogue and open ward doors in therapeutic work, as well as the connections between psychiatric reimbursement systems and clinical aspects.