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AB - Book reviews to create a narrative, which emerges throughout the An anthology of psychiatric ethics book’s chapters. In this case, Klerman’s somewhat Stephen Green and Sidney Bloch, Editors incendiary paper, ‘‘The psychiatric patient’s right to Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006 effective treatment’’, is juxtaposed with articles im- ploring psychiatrists to take a balanced approach to ISBN 0198564880 pp. 498 $95.00 (paperback), the rigours of evidence-based medicine, thus elevating $233.00 (hardback) the ethical dilemmas of clinical decision making in the mind of the reader. ‘‘Let us bear in mind that psychiatrists have been in The ethics surrounding the practice of forensic the forefront in helping homosexuals ... It is unthink- psychiatry has traditionally been a rich source of able that homosexuals be persecuted for something writing in the field of psychiatric ethics. In this section over which they have no choice’’ of the Anthology, Green and Bloch’s main focus is the Dr Charles Socardies made this remark in 1973. dilemma surrounding the so-called ‘double agent’ The setting was an American Psychiatric Association role faced by forensic psychiatrists. Green and Bloch symposium, debating the issue of ‘demedicalizing’ present the views of the two main protagonists in the homosexuality. This window into 
TI - Book Review: Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and the New Biology of Mind
JF - Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
DO - 10.1177/000486740704100201
DA - 2016-06-26
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VL - 41
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
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