I. Coercion: From the Hospital to the Community -- 1 Coercion to Inpatient Treatment: Initial Results and Implications for Assertive Treatment in the Community -- 2 Outpatient Commitment: Official Coercion in the Community -- II. Coercion and Treatment: The Community Provider's Perspective -- 3 Coercion and Tenacious Treatment in the Community: Applications to the Real World -- 4 "Coercion" and Leverage in Clinical Outreach -- 5 The Perils of Outreach Work: Overreaching the Limits of Persuasive Tactics -- III. The Social Context of Aggressive Community Treatment -- 6 Housing as a Tool of Coercion -- 7 Entitlements, Payees, and Coercion -- IV. Research Agenda on Coercion in the Community -- 8 Research on the Coercion of Persons with Severe Mental Illness -- 9 Coercion and Social Control: A Framework for Research on Aggressive Strategies in Community Mental Health -- V. Coercion in the Community: The Open Questions -- 10 When Push Comes to Shove: Aggressive Community Treatment and the Law -- 11 Regulation from Without: The Shadow Side of Coercion.