Psychiatric Ethics

by Sidney Bloch (Editor), Paul Chodoff (Editor)

This new edition of Psychiatric Ethics continues to serve as the most authoritative and comprehensive text on the many complex ethical dilemmas which face the clinician in everyday practice. In addition to addressing questions about drug therapy, sex therapy, suicide, and child psychiatry,
among others, this up-to-date revision adds six new chapters discussing abuses in psychiatry in Japan and Nazi Germany; a conceptual analysis of what mental illness is; psychiatry as a profession; the ethical aspects of psychogeriatrics; and deinstitutionalization. This book is essential reading for
all mental health professionals.

Genres: Psychiatry

570 pages, Paperback

First published August 27, 1981

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[Nauticality · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty good