Forced hospitalization in psychiatry is still a very complex issue that causes numerous polemics and doubts of an ethical nature. The numbers of involuntarily hospitalized patients vary from country to country, which is mostly influenced by the legal regulations of the countries themselves, as well as a number of other factors. It is interesting to note that there are on average 14.5 patients per 100,000 inhabitants of forced hospitalization in Italy, while the same number in Austria is 282 patients. During research in Ob Pula at the Department of Psychiatry in 2019, there were 16, while in 2021 there were 17 forced hospitalizations. Other data that were the basis of the research were age, gender, level of education, medical diagnosis, marital status and accompanying person during emergency admission. All obtained data were correlated with data from the literature. It was dominated by the male sex, high school education, extramarital union, diagnosis of schizophrenia and psychotic disorder, and police escort during emergency psychiatric admission.