Robert L. Simon & Peter David Blanck
1991
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h our increasingly litigious society,
this comprehensive volume provides important and practical insights to legal principles for psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, and lawyers who practice mental health law. It is an impressive digest, divided into five general sections comprising 13 chapters, that focuses on (1) psychotherapy and malpractice; (2) involuntary civil commitment and the relation between legal practice and clinical management; (3) legal and clinical issues associated with the violent client, with particular emphasis on the problems of prediction and management of violent client behavior; (4) professional relationships between psychiatrists and other medical and nonmedical health care professionals; and (5) a "features" section that examines issues such as recent legal developments and psychiatry, the psychiatrist as expert witness, and a Canadian perspective on clinical psychiatry and the law.
Blanck, P. (1992). Psychiatry in a litigious society. Review of Review of Clinical Psychiatry and the Law- Volume 2, Contemporary Psychology, 37(1), 15-16.
Keywords: litigation, psychiatry