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Psychiatric Malpractice - James L. Kelley, Psychiatric Malpractice: Stories of Patients, Psychiatrists, and the Law (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1996): 240 pp, ISSN 0-8135-2323-0, $29.95 (hard cover).

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Edmund G. Howe
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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , Spring 1998 , pp. 65 - 67
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 1998

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See Kelley, J.L., Psychiatric Malpractice: Stories of Patients, Psychiatrists, and the Law (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1996).Google Scholar
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See, for example, Howe, E.G., “Possible Mistakes,” Journal of Clinical Ethics, 8 (1997): 323–28.Google Scholar
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William Masters is best known for his work with Virginia Johnson on sexual therapies. See, for example, Masters, W.H. Johnson, V.E., Human Sexual Inadequacy (Boston: Little, Brown, 1970).Google Scholar
A good initial exposure to Laing, R. D. is Evans, R. I., R.D. Laing/The Man and His Ideas (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1976).Google Scholar
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Two contemporary examples suggesting this complexity from disparate points of view (neurological and psychological) are Penrose, R., Shadows of the Mind/A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994) and Ludwig, A.M., How Do We Know Who We Are? A Biography of the Self (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).Google Scholar
An early example of the use of paradox is Palazzoli, M.S., Paradox and Counterparadox (New York: Jason Aronson, 1978). Logotherapy is discussed by its founder in Frankl, V.E. Lasch, Use, trans., From Death-Camp to Existentialism/A Psychiatrist's Path to a New Therapy (Boston: Beacon Press, 1959); its current applications are discussed in Fabry, J.B. Bulka, R.P. Sahakian, W.S., eds., Logotherapy in Action (New York: Jason Aronson, 1979). Examples of Milton Erickson's work are presented in Erickson, M.H. Rossi, E.L., Hypnotherapy/An Exploratory Casebook (New York: Irvington Publishers, 1979); and Zeig, J.K., ed., Teaching Seminar with Milton H. Erickson (New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1980).Google Scholar
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I may have acquired unrealistically high expectations of psychiatrists writing about mental illness that they have personally experienced since reading Kay Redfield Jamison's depiction of her experience with bipolar illness. She declares, for example, that she owes her psychiatrist a “debt beyond description,” because he was “terribly direct … and willing to admit the limits of his understanding … and when he was wrong.” Jamison, K.R., An Unquiet Mind/A Memoir of Moods and Madness (New York: Vintage Books, 1995): At 118.Google Scholar