Psychiatrist facing litigation

Sigmund Freud: Forensic Psychiatrist

As a forensic psychiatrist, I have written extensively about my own routine application of psychiatric and psychoanalytic principles to my practice. 1-7 However, until very recently, I was unaware that Freud, in addition to supplying the indispensable theoretical underpinning, had made direct contributions to forensic psychiatry. Sigmund Freud requires no introduction. His theories and their th...

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Child Psychiatrist and Paediatrician

I T is currently fashionable to be in favour of inter-disciplinary coderation, but this attitude is a comParatively recent innovation in the Medical field. Doctors have been very resistant to the notion of working with Flon-medical colleagues on anything lke an equal basis; and the author can ^ember very clearly the solemn a,jning that he received from a senior Queague, in 1939, of possible Gen...

Thomas W. Salmon, Psychiatrist

Dr. Earl Bond has earned the gratitude of a large number of readers on both sides of the Atlantic by producing this biography of Dr. Salmon. It is an unusually good book, as readable as a novel, dealing with well-selected material and in a very realistic xvay. It is perhaps natural that Dr. Bond should regard his task almost as the writing of a case history, and that makes it more interesting b...

The Responsibility of the Psychiatrist

human relationships, delinquency and the like, date essentially from World War II. Amongst the many valuable lessons learnt by the service psychiatrist during those war years, perhaps the two hardest for him to accept were the dangers of "over-selling" psychiatry; and his role with, and responsibility towards, not only his patient but also the community of which the patient, and the psychiatris...