عنوان

Psychiatry - law, and ethics

0387157425

3540157425

9780387157429

9783540157427

b554650

Psychiatry - law, and ethics

[Book]

edited by A. Carmi, S. Schneider, A. Hefez ; with contributions by G. Ammon ...

Berlin ; New York

Springer-Verlag

©1985.

315 s. : illustrations.

Medicolegal library, 5.

I. Introduction.- The Abnormal Approach to Abnormality.- II. Psychiatry and Society.- The Responsibilities of Psychiatrists to Society: The Dual Loyalties.- Political Psychiatry.- The Prostitution of Psychiatry: The 1930s in Germany and the 1980s in America.- The Role of Social Energy for Man.- III. Psychiatry and Law.- A. General.- Some Psychiatric Phenomena in Ancient Law.- The Evolutionary Relationship Between Psychiatry and the Law.- The Ideology of Entitlement: The Contemporary Function of Law and Its Application to Psychiatry.- Psychiatrist and Lawyer - Total Incompatibility?.- Post-Divorce Family Psychopathology: An Empirical Report.- B. Patients Rights.- Indexing Civil Commitment Criteria in Psychiatric Emergency Rooms.- The Rights of a Psychiatric Patient in a Mental Hospital.- Involuntary Psychiatric Hospitalization and Civil Liberties - The Case of Israel.- Civil Commitment Under Israeli Law.- Two Different Levels of Patient Autonomy.- The Rights of the Mental Patient Under Israeli Law.- Mental Health and Human Rights: Illegal Detention in Japan.- Clinical Perplexities in the Treatment of Treatment-Refusing Forensic Patients.- C. Psychiatry and Criminal Law.- Sentencing Offenders with Mental Disorders.- Psychiatric Evaluation of Criminal Accused.- Criminal Liability: Psychiatric Evaluation vs. Legal Tests.- The Insanity Defense: Current Law and Reform Options.- The Insanity Defense Under Nigerian Law.- Victimology Without a Victim.- Considerations Regarding the Legal Responsibilities of Schizophrenic Patients.- Violence After Severe Provocation.- Staff Injuries Caused by Psychiatric Patients.- D. The Expert Witness.- The Trap of the Medical Certificate.- The Psychiatric Case Register and Confidentiality.- Amnesia, Law, and Modern Psychiatry.- E. Children and the Aged.- Children's Accidents: Psychological and Legal Dimensions.- The Agony of Phillip Becker: Parental Autonomy Versus the Best Interests of the Child.- The Child in Court.- The Female Adolescent "Borderline": Psychiatric Disorder, Intellectual Anomaly, or Both?.- Legal Problems in Current Geriatric Psychiatry.- IV. Treatment and Rehabilitation.- Iatrogenic Syndromes and Disharmony in the Doctor-Doctor Relationship.- Ego-Structural Milieu Therapy in the Conception of Amnion's Theory of Dynamic Psychiatry.- Contraception and Abortion in Mentally Handicapped Female Adolescents Under German Law.- Victim Workers as Therapists for Incarcerated Sex Offenders.- V. Psychiatry and Ethics.- Ethics and Psychiatry.- Ethics and Depth Psychology.- The Right to Suicide - Ethical, Legal, and Psychiatric Approaches.- Ethical Issues in Forensic Psychiatry.- Research in Human Structurology.

Forensic psychiatry.

Insanity (Law)

Psychiatric ethics.

edited by A. Carmi, S. Schneider, A. Hefez ; with contributions by G. Ammon ...

Albert Hefez

Amnon Carmi

Stanley Schneider

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