How human rights can guide german psychiatry

The concerns and recommendations of the UN "Final Remarks" on the first German State Report are substantiated by up-to-date health reporting data. Their "recommendations" are substantiated by evidence-based care models and supplemented by additional content from the Special Rapporteur's report of 2017 as visions for German psychiatric care, thus demonstrating the path of psychiatry determined by respect for human rights and social inclusion. The avoidance of coercion through trauma-informed treatment and the development of complex outpatient treatment structures through the models of open dialogue and the recovery approach are seen as the focus of a paradigm shift. The awareness that in today's psychiatry, especially through deficient structures, human rights violations are committed that could be avoided, should contribute to the determination for the necessary changes.