REASON AND UNREASON IN PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE

Unreason and the liberal tradition

It is conventionally thought impermissible to force treatment on a patient, even when his life is at stake. Following Kant or Mill, we may defend this convention either by appealing to the inviolability of autonomy, or to the benefits of treating liberty as inviolable, subject only to considerations of harm to others. In both cases, an exception might be made for mental illness. For Kant, auton...

Psychological Medicine

The third edition of this textbook for students and newly qualified Practitioners is the first to be published since the untimely death of Dr. Eric Guttmann, one of its original authors. Largely as a result of this apparently, there are few major alterations in this edition, though the sections on Mental Deficiency, Hysteria and Schizophrenia have all been added to and brought more in line with...

Psychological Medicine

The sixth edition of this perefl't ally popular book is well up to tb1] standard of the earlier ones and |i remarkably good value at todaVi prices. This has been an introdu^ tion to psychiatry for severe generations of professional work; ers in mental health, and at i1 own level it has not yet beei excelled. There is a certain wardian panache to the style whi^ makes it refreshingly differed fro...

Psychological Medicine

Psychological Medicine