Psychiatric Malpractice: Stories of Patients, Psychiatrists, and the Law

by James L. Kelley

Book Overview

- Two weeks after Johnny Moore was discharged from a psychiatric hospital, the deeply troubled teenager took a lethal overdose of the antidepressant prescribed by his psychiatrist. - Dennis Gould suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. He let a streetcar cut off his right arm rather than carry out his divine mission to kill his ex-girlfriend, Shelley Rotman; three years later--while under psychiatric care and after several hospitalizations--Gould stabbed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813523230
• ISBN13: 9780813523231
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher