Psychiatry — Law and Ethics

306 Pages·1986·5.379 MB·English

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

Medicolegal Library 5
Edited by A. Carmi
Psychiatry -
Law and Ethics
Edited by
A. Carmi S. Schneider A. Hefez
With Contributions by
G. Ammon L. V. Annis U. Aviram A Avnat C. A Baker
Y. Bar-EI J. Bazak I. Burbiel A Carmi S. B. Cohen
H. H. Cohn S. Davidson B. C. Dimond G. Dreifuss
G.Dixon AElizur AEser G.Ferguson D.AFrenkel
Y. Ginath L. Gostin D. Griepenstroh A F. Halmosh
S. S. Herr E.Johanson Y. Kitamura AA Kuforiji
N. Laor N. S. Lehrman A Levy U. Lowental
G. W. Lynch L. Mathers R. R. Mayer T. Mitsuishi
M. Moser R. Moses T. M. Napier L. S. Nelson
J. R. Rappeport P. Rodenhauser R. R. Rogers
S. Schneider C. P. Seager S. P. Segal N. P. Sheehy
D. Shnit P. Silfen M. Torem E. Totsuka I. Treves
M. S. Tropper S. Tyano J. Wagner M. A Watson F. Wei I
Y. Z. Zadik G. Zlotnik
Springer-Verlag
Berlin Heidelberg N ew York Tokyo
Judge Amnon Carmi
P.O.B. 6451, Haifa 31063, Israel
Prof. Dr. Stanley Schneider
Summit Institute
Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Yeshiva University
Michlala, Jerusalem Womens's College
P.O.B. 7446, Jerusalem, Israel
Prof. Albert Hefez
9 Zinger Str., Kiriat Bialik, Israel
ISBN-13: 978-3-540-15742-7 e-ISBN-13: 978-3-642-82574-3
DOl: 10.1007/978-3-642-82574-3
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Psychiatry - law and ethics. (Medicolegal library ; 5) 1. Forensic psychiatry-Addresses,
essays, lectures. 2. Insanity-Juris prudence-Addresses, essays, lectures. 3. Psychiatric
ethics-Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Carmi, Amnon. II. Ammon, Gunter, 1918. III. Series.
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Table of Contents
I. Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Abnormal Approach to Abnormality
A.Carmi ................. . 3
II. Psychiatry and Society ............ . 17
The Responsibilities of Psychiatrists to Society:
The Dual Loyalties
R. R. Rogers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Political Psychiatry
G. WLynch ..... 25
The Prostitution of Psychiatry:
The 1930s in Germany and the 1980s in America
N. S. Lehrman .................. . 36
The Role of Social Energy for Man
G.Ammon . ............. . 48
III. Psychiatry and Law. 57
A. General . ...... . 59
Some Psychiatric Phenomena in Ancient Law
H.H.Cohn ................... . 59
The Evolutionary Relationship Between Psychiatry
and the Law
S. B. Cohen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
The Ideology of Entitlement: The Contemporary Function
of Law and Its Application to Psychiatry
L. Goslin ....................... 74
Psychiatrist and Lawyer - Total Incompatibility?
C. P. Seager and T. M. Napier .. . . . . . . . . . . 81
VI Table of Contents
Post-Divorce Family Psychopathology: An Empirical Report
G. Zlotnik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 86
B. Patients Rights. 91
Indexing Civil Commitment Criteria
in Psychiatric Emergency Rooms
S. P.Segal, M.A. Watson, and L.S. Nelson 91
The Rights of a Psychiatric Patient in a Mental Hospital
R. R. Mayer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Involuntary Psychiatric Hospitalization and Civil Liberties -
The Case of Israel
U. A viram and D. Shnit. . . . . . . . . 106
Civil Commitment Under Israeli Law
Y. Ginath, Y. Bar-El, and D.A. Frenkel. 116
Two Different Levels of Patient Autonomy
U. Lowental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
The Rights of the Mental Patient Under Israeli Law
A. Levy and S. Davidson ............... . 133
Mental Health and Human Rights: Illegal Detention in Japan
E. Totsuka, T. Mitsuishi, and Y. Kitamura. . . . . . . . . . .. 142
Clinical Perplexities in the Treatment of Treatment-Refusing
Forensic Patients
P. Rodenhauser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 148
C. Psychiatry and Criminal Law . 152
Sentencing Offenders with Mental Disorders
J.Bazak . ................... . 152
Psychiatric Evaluation of Criminal Accused
Y.Z.Zadik .................. . 158
Criminal Liability: Psychiatric Evaluation vs. Legal Tests
A.Elizurand M.Moser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
The Insanity Defense: Current Law and Reform Options
G. Ferguson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
The Insanity Defense Under Nigerian Law
A.A. Kuforiji ................ . 182
Victimology Without a Victim
P.Silfen ............ . 189
Table of Contents VII
Considerations Regarding the Legal Responsibilities
of Schizophrenic Patients
I. Treves and A. Elizur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Violence After Severe Provocation
E. Johanson . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Staff Injuries Caused by Psychiatric Patients
B. C. Dimond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
D. The Expert Witness . . . . . . . . 214
The Trap of the Medical Certificate
A. F. Halmosh ............ . 214
The Psychiatric Case Register and Confidentiality
S. Schneider and R. Moses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Amnesia, Law, and Modem Psychiatry
M. S. Tropper, A. Avnat, and J. Wagner 225
E. Children and the Aged. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 231
Children's Accidents: Psychological and Legal Dimensions
N. P Sheehy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
The Agony of Phillip Becker: Parental Autonomy Versus
the Best Interests of the Child
S.S.Herr ..... . 236
The Child in Court
S. Tyano ...... . 241
The Female Adolescent "Borderline": Psychiatric Disorder,
Intellectual Anomaly, or Both?
S. Schneider. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 245
Legal Problems in Current Geriatric Psychiatry
M. S. Tropper, A.Avnat, and J. Wagner ..... 250
IV. Treatment and Rehabilitation .... 255
Iatrogenic Syndromes and Disharmony
in the Doctor-Doctor Relationship
M. Torem ................ . 257
Ego-Structural Milieu Therapy in the Conception
of Ammon's Theory of Dynamic Psychiatry
D. Griepenstroh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
VI I I Table of Contents
Contraception and Abortion in Mentally Handicapped
Female Adolescents Under German Law
A.Eser. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Victim Workers as Therapists for Incarcerated Sex Offenders
L. V.Annis. L. Mathers. G. Dixon. and CA. Baker . . . . . .. 283
V. Psychiatry and Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 293
Ethics and Psychiatry
N.Laor ....... . 295
Ethics and Depth Psychology
G. Dreifuss .......... . 300
The Right to Suicide -
Ethical, Legal, and Psychiatric Approaches
F. Wei! . ................ . 303
Ethical Issues in Forensic Psychiatry
J. R. Rappeport . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Research in Human Structurology
I. Burbie! ............. . 311
Subject Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 316
List of Contributors
G.Ammon
Prinz-Friedrich-Leopold-Str. 21, 0-1000 Berlin 38
L. Y.Annis
c/o Leigh Mathers, Units 22, Forensic Service
Florida State Hospital, Chattahoochee, FL 32324, USA
U.Aviram
School of Social Work, University of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
A Avnat
c/o M. S. Tropper, Geha Psychiatric Hospital, Petah Tikva, Israel
C.A Baker
c/o Leigh Mathers, Unit 22, Forensic Service
Florida State Hospital, Chattahoochee, FI 32324, USA
Y. Bar-EI
Kfar Shaul Psychiatric Hospital, Givat Shaul, Israel
J. Bazak
7 Narkis Street, Jerusalem, Israel
I. Burbiel
Menterschweige, Geiselgasteig Str. 203, 0-8000 Miinchen 90
A Carmi
P.O. Box 6451, Haifa 31063, Israel
S. B.Cohen
401 Peachtree Street, N. E. Atlanta, GA 30308, USA
H.H.Cohn
36 Tchernichowsky Street, Jerusalem 92585, Israel
S.Oavidson
Shalvata Hospital, Hod Hasharon, P.O.B. 94, Israel
X List of Contributors
B.C.Dimond
Polytechnic of Wales, Treforest, Mid Glamorgan
Wales, Great Britain
G.Dixon
402 East Park Avenue, Tallahassee, FL 32302, USA
G. Dreifuss
62 Margalit Str., Haifa 34464, Israel
A.Elizur
Shalvata Hospital, Hod Hasharon, P.O.B. 94, Israel
A. Eser
Gunterstalstr. 73, D-7800 Freiburg
G.Ferguson
Faculty of Law, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada V8W 3H7
D. A. Frenkel
Horkania, Jerusalem, Israel
Y.Ginath
Beer Sheva Mental Health Center, P.O.B. 4600
Beer Sheva, Israel 84170
L.Gostin
Oxford University, Center for Criminology Research 12
Bevington Rd, Oxford OX2 60H, Great Britain
D. Griepenstroh
BIeibtreustr. 48, D-1000 Berlin 12
A. F. Halmosh
26, Yphtach Hagilach Str., Beer Sheva 84234, Israel
S.S.Herr
190 Montrose Avenue, South Orange, NJ 07079, USA
E.Johanson
Brinkvagen 7, S-8-90248 Umea
Y. Kitamura
c/o Totsuka E., 404 Naito-cho House, 1-121
Naito-cho Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160, Japan
A. A. Kuforiji
Department of Law, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
List of Contributors XI
N.Laor
Yale School of Medicine, Child Study Center, 333 Cedar Str.
New Haven, CT06510, USA
N. S. Lehrman
Roslyn, NY 11576, USA
A. Levy
Shalvata Hospital, Hod Hasharon, P.O.B. 94, Israel
U.Lowental
Eshkol Boulevard 22, Apt. 3, Jerusalem 92-585, Israel
G.W.Lynch
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 444 West 56 Street, NY, USA
L.Mathers
Unit 22, Forensic Service, Florida State Hospital, Chattahoochee
FL 32324, USA
R. R. Mayer
8 Rakafot Street, Rehovot 76608, Israel
T. Mitsuishi
c/o Totsuka E., 404 Naito-cho House, 1-121
Naito-cho Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160, Japan
M.Moser
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
R. Moses
Summit Instiute, Shimony 44, P.O.B. 7446, Jerusalem 91073, Israel
T.M. Napier
Nothern Central Hospital, Sheffield 55, lAU, Great Britain
L.S. Nelson
Department of Psychiatric Medicine, East Carolina University
School of Medicine, Greenville, NC, USA
J. R. Rappeport
University of Maryland, School of Medicine, MD, USA
P. Rodenhauser
Wright State University, School of Medicine, Dayton
OH 45435, USA
R. R. Rogers
Harbor, UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90509, USA