Clinical handbook of psychiatry & the law
By: Paul S. Appelbaum, Thomas G. Gutheil.
Contributors: Gutheil, Thomas G.
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780781778916
Subjects: Psychiatrists -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States; Forensic psychiatry -- United States; Psychotherapist and patient -- United States; Forensic Psychiatry
Other titles: Clinical handbook of psychiatry and the law; Psychiatry & the law
Notes: Rev. ed. of: Clinical handbook of psychiatry and the law / Thomas G. Gutheil, Paul S. Appelbaum. 3rd ed. c2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Confidentiality and privilege; title: Legal issues in emergency psychiatry; title: Legal issues in inpatient psychiatry; title: Malpractice and other forms of liability; title: Competence and substitute decision-making; title: Forensic evaluations; title: Clinicians and lawyers; title: The clinician in court.