Psychiatry — Law and Ethics

✍ Scribed by A. Carmi (auth.), Amnon Carmi, Prof. Dr. Stanley Schneider, Prof. Albert Hefez (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 306
• Series: Medicolegal Library 5
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Abnormal Approach to Abnormality....Pages 3-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
The Prostitution of Psychiatry: The 1930s in Germany and the 1980s in America....Pages 36-47
The Role of Social Energy for Man....Pages 48-55
Front Matter....Pages 57-57
Some Psychiatric Phenomena in Ancient Law....Pages 59-68
The Evolutionary Relationship Between Psychiatry and the Law....Pages 69-73
The Ideology of Entitlement: The Contemporary Function of Law and Its Application to Psychiatry....Pages 74-80
Psychiatrist and Lawyer — Total Incompatibility?....Pages 81-85
Post-Divorce Family Psychopathology: An Empirical Report....Pages 86-90
Indexing Civil Commitment Criteria in Psychiatric Emergency Rooms....Pages 91-100
The Rights of a Psychiatric Patient in a Mental Hospital....Pages 101-105
Involuntary Psychiatric Hospitalization and Civil Liberties — The Case of Israel....Pages 106-115
Civil Commitment Under Israeli Law....Pages 116-126
Two Different Levels of Patient Autonomy....Pages 127-132
The Rights of the Mental Patient Under Israeli Law....Pages 133-141
Mental Health and Human Rights: Illegal Detention in Japan....Pages 142-147
Clinical Perplexities in the Treatment of Treatment-Refusing Forensic Patients....Pages 148-151
Sentencing Offenders with Mental Disorders....Pages 152-157
Psychiatric Evaluation of Criminal Accused....Pages 158-164
Criminal Liability: Psychiatric Evaluation vs. Legal Tests....Pages 165-169
The Insanity Defense: Current Law and Reform Options....Pages 170-181
Front Matter....Pages 57-57
The Insanity Defense Under Nigerian Law....Pages 182-188
Victimology Without a Victim....Pages 189-194
Considerations Regarding the Legal Responsibilities of Schizophrenic Patients....Pages 195-198
Violence After Severe Provocation....Pages 199-203
Staff Injuries Caused by Psychiatric Patients....Pages 204-213
The Trap of the Medical Certificate....Pages 214-217
The Psychiatric Case Register and Confidentiality....Pages 218-224
Amnesia, Law, and Modern Psychiatry....Pages 225-230
Children’s Accidents: Psychological and Legal Dimensions....Pages 231-235
The Agony of Phillip Becker: Parental Autonomy Versus the Best Interests of the Child....Pages 236-240
The Child in Court....Pages 241-244
The Female Adolescent “Borderline”: Psychiatric Disorder, Intellectual Anomaly, or Both?....Pages 245-249
Legal Problems in Current Geriatric Psychiatry....Pages 250-254
Front Matter....Pages 255-255
Iatrogenic Syndromes and Disharmony in the Doctor-Doctor Relationship....Pages 257-263
Ego-Structural Milieu Therapy in the Conception of Ammon’s Theory of Dynamic Psychiatry....Pages 264-267
Contraception and Abortion in Mentally Handicapped Female Adolescents Under German Law....Pages 268-282
Victim Workers as Therapists for Incarcerated Sex Offenders....Pages 283-291
Front Matter....Pages 293-293
Ethics and Psychiatry....Pages 295-299
Ethics and Depth Psychology....Pages 300-302
The Right to Suicide — Ethical, Legal, and Psychiatric Approaches....Pages 303-307
Front Matter....Pages 293-293
Ethical Issues in Forensic Psychiatry....Pages 308-310
Research in Human Structurology....Pages 311-315
Back Matter....Pages 316-318

✦ Subjects

Medical Law; Psychiatry; Criminal Law