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This excellent guide details the standards of care in psychiatry, the psychiatrist-patient relationship, informed consent, and duties owed the patient. Uses case studies to demonstrate actions which constitute a breach of care and explains why parameters on these standards have proven hard to establish. Suicide malpractice and prevention, organic psychiatric intervention such as shock treatment, sexual exploitation of patients, civil rights of the mentally ill, and the selection and role of psychiatric experts are among the issues discussed.
