Ambivalence, Alliance, and Advocacy: Misunderstood Dualities in Psychiatry and Law

Footnotes

• Dr. Gutheil is Director, Program in Psychiatry and the Law, and Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard Medical School; he is also Visiting Lecturer, Harvard Law School and President, Law and Psychiatry Resource Center. Dr. Magraw is Chief of Psychiatry, VA Hospital, Minneapolis, and Professor of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota Medical School. The authors acknowledge their indebtedness to Paul S. Appelbaum, MD and Douglas Ingram, MD and the members of the McLean Hospital Forensic Psychiatry seminar for their extremely helpful comments.

• Reprint requests: Dr. Gutheil, 74 Fenwood Road, Boston, MA 02115. An earlier version of this paper was presented as the Guttmacher Award lecture to the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law, May 1983.

• Supported in part by Grant #5T01-MH-16460-03 from the National Institutes of Mental Health.