Mental illness, medicine, and law / edited by Martin Lyon Levine.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. The Seriously Ill: -- Involuntary Short-Term Treatment: -- Ethical benefits and costs of coercion in short-term inpatient psychiatric care / Lars Kjellin, Kristina Andersson, Inga-Lill Candefjord, Tom Palmstierna and Tuula Wallstein -- Involuntary outpatient commitment / Elyn R. Saks -- Treatment Rights: -- Ethics in community mental health care. The legislative tenets of client's right to treatment in the least restrictive environment and freedom from harm. Implications for care providers / Douglas A. Marty and Rosemary Chapin -- Privacy in psychiatric treatment: threats and responses / Paul S. Applebaum -- The right to refuse mental health treatment: a therapeutic jurisprudence analysis / Bruce J. Winick -- Advance directives in psychiatry resolving issues of autonomy and competence / Janet Ritchie, Ron Sklar and Warren Steiner -- Protection and advocacy: an ethics practice in mental health / D.P.Olsen -- Ethical conflicts at the interface of advocacy and psychiatry / Martin L. Levine and Martha Lyon-Levine -- Psychiatry and the control of dangerousness: on the apotropaic function of the term ''mental illness'' / Thomas Szasz -- Dangerousness, mental disorder, and responsibility / J.R. McMillan -- Sanism, social science, and the development of mental disability law jurisprudence / Michael L. Perlin and Deborah A. Dorfman -- The success of deinstitutionalization: empirical findings from case studies on state hospital closures / Aileen B. Rothbard and Eri Kuno -- Build a better state hospital: deinstitutionalization has failed / Alexander Gralnick -- Keeping the mentally ill out of jail / Richard Lamb -- Depression, somatization and the ''new cross-cultural psychiatry'' / Arthur M. Kleinman -- Mental health law and ethics in transition: a report from Japan / Paul S. Applebaum -- Psychiatric diagnosis and racial bias: empirical and interpretative approaches / Roland Littlewood -- Providing culturally appropriate mental health services for minorities / Jacqueline Wallen -- Part II. The Ordinary Mind: -- The psychological consequences of judicial procedures: implications for civil commitment hearings / Tom R. Tyler -- Social justice: outcome and procedure / Tom R. Tyler -- A critical-psychology approach to law's legitimacy / Dennis R. Fox -- Memories of things unseen / Elizabeth F. Loftus -- False memory syndrome: undermining the credibility of complainants in sexual offences / Fiona E. Raitt and M. Suzanne Zeedyk -- Judgment under uncertainty: heuristics and biases / Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman -- Overdiagnosis and Overmedication: -- The need for a new medical model: a challenge for biomedicine / George L. Engel -- Somatization and medicalization in the era of managed care / Arthur J. Barsky and Jonathan F. Borus -- Setting boundaries for psychiatric disorders / Kenneth S. Kendler -- Are stimulants over prescribed for youths with ADHD? / Daniel J. Safer -- A black box warning for antidepressants in children? / Thomas B. Newman -- Manipulating your mind: what will science discover about our brains, and how are we going to deal with it? / Holger Breithaupt and Katrin Weigmann -- Treatment, enhancement, and the ethics of neurotherapeutics / Paul Root Wolpe -- Part III. The Therapist: -- Informed consent - must it remain a fairy tale? / Jay Katz -- Ethical perspectives on decision-making capacity and consent for treatment and research / Ron L.P. Berghmans and Guy A.M. Widdershoven -- Informed consent: myth or reality / T. Mozes, S. Tyano, I. Manor and R. Mester -- Weaving a tangled web: the deceptions of psychiatrists / Ansar M. Haroun and Grant H. Morris -- Cases studies in confidentiality / David Lowenthal -- The ethical limits of confidentiality in the therapeutic relationship / S.A. Green -- Managing risk when contemplating multiple relationships / Jeffrey N. Younggren and Michael C. Gottleib -- The development of dual relationships: power and professional responsibility / Vincent J. Rinella and Alvin I. Gerstein -- This couldn''t happen to me: boundary problems and sexual misconduct in the psychotherapy relationship / Donna M. Norris, Thomas G. Gutheil, and Larry H. Strasburger -- Psychotherapist-patient sexual contact after termination of treatment: an analysis and a proposal / Paul S. Applebaum and Linda Jorgenson -- Abuses of law and psychiatry in China / Paul S. Applebaum -- Ethics, power and advocacy / Martha A. Lyon and Martin L. Levine -- Conflicting loyalties in the practice of psychiatry: some philosophical reflections / James Dwyer -- The parable of the forensic psychiatrist: ethics and the problem of doing harm / Paul S. Applebaum -- Revisiting the parable: truth without consequences / Alan A. Stone -- Liability for the psychiatrist expert witness / Renee L. Binder -- Forensic ethics and capital punishment: is there a special problem? / Alan A. Stone -- Is managed care ethical? / Stephen A. Green -- Working in a flawed mental health care system: an ethical challenge / Stephen A. Green and Sidney Bloch -- The new medical ethics and mental health administration / Robert D. Reece -- Ethics in psychiatric practice: essential ethics skills, informed consent, the therapeutic relationship, and confidentiality / Laura Weiss Roberts, Cynthia M.A. Geppert and Robert Bailey -- Protecting altruism: a call for a code of ethics in British psychiatry / Sameer P. Sarkar and Gwen Adshead.

"As new medical technologies and treatments develop with increasing momentum, the legal and ethical implications of medicine are being called into question as never before. Martin Levine's collection brings together the seminal papers written on the nexus between mental illness, its treatment and its relationship to the law. The volume also provides an informative introduction, summarizing the area and the relevance of the articles chosen."--Publisher's website.

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