Psychiatry -- Law and Ethics

ISBN-13: 9783540157427 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 318 str.

Amnon Carmi; Stanley Schneider; Albert Hefez

Opis

The prostitution of the German psychiatric profession into a Nazi inquisitional tool was a major factor producing the total degradation of German medicine and moral ity. Its low point was its psychiatrists killing the patients they were sworn to care for, and its other physicians performing inhuman experiments on patients they were pledged to treat. In America also, psychiatry has been performing some of the functions of an In quisition: injuring innocents, both patients and dissenters, and exculpating crimi nals, terrorists especially. Innocents are being injured both in and out of psychiatric hospitals. The in creased fragmentation of care, the augmentation of its discontinuities, and assign ing the responsibility for organizing it to non-medical managers are some of the fac tors worsening the treatment results of our hospitals. Wrongful deaths, due largely to the specialty's intoxication with drugs while ignoring the importance of common human decency, have become a national scandal."

Spis treści

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.