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- Published online March 13, 2015.
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© 2015 American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
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- Robert Weinstock, MD
- Dr. Weinstock is Health Sciences Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. A version of this paper was presented as the President's Address at the 45th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.
- Address correspondence to: Robert Weinstock, MD, 1823 Sawtelle Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90025. E-mail: rweinstomd{at}gmail.com.
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- Abstract
- Ethical Dilemmas in Forensic Psychiatry
- Primary and Secondary Duties
- Ethics Foundations
- Do Ethics Dilemmas Suggest That the AAPL Ethics Guidelines Are Inadequate?
- AAPL Ethics Guidelines and Opinions
- Ethics, Morality, Right, and Wrong
- Similarities and Differences With Robust Professionalism
- Potential Areas of Misunderstanding
- Is It Ever Ethical to Accept Cases for Only One Side and Not the Other?
- A Brief History of Significant Concerns in Forensic Psychiatric Ethics
- Competing Duties in Other Psychiatric Roles
- Even if Duties in Other Psychiatric Practices Have Changed, Why Should Forensic Psychiatrists Complicate Things by Considering the Implications of Their Work?
- Previous Ethics Surveys of AAPL Members and Their Implications
- How Does Dialectical Principlism Differ From Situational and Narrative Ethics?
- Is It Ethical to Accept a Referral from the Prosecution in the Penalty Phase of a Capital Case for the Purpose of Finding Aggravating Circumstances?
- Accepting Referrals From a Company That the Psychiatrist Sees as Having Little or No Redeeming Value, Even if It Is in the Right
- Usual Forensic Practice and the Unusual Dilemmas in Complex Cases
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
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