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Defensive psychiatry. An ethical perspective
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 March 2020
Abstract
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Introduction
The legal dispute between doctors and patients is increasing. The “frivolous lawsuit” is spreading and the psychiatrist is being dragged to court in the dock. Guidelines and operational protocols become the bastions of the defensive psychiatry. Defensive psychiatry involves, for example, a larger number of hospitalizations, also involuntary admissions, and psycopharmacological prescriptions.
Objectives
We want to see if the issue of defensive psychiatry is perceived by psychiatrists as a risk in their clinical practices and what consequences may result in the relationship with the patient.
Methods
Through an audit and through a literature review get to define the defensive psychiatry.
Conclusions
Though there is much confusions and uncertainty in this field, the defensive psychiatry distorts the relationship with the patients and proposes the questions of social control.
Disclosure of interest
The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.
- Type
- e-Poster viewing: ethics and psychiatry
- Information
- European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue S1: Abstract of the 25th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2017 , pp. S582
- Copyright
- Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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