Citation

Szasz T. J. Soc. Work Educ. 2003; 39(3): 375-381.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, Council on Social Work Education)

DOI

10.1080/10437797.2003.10779144

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The term "mental illness" implies that persons with such illnesses are more likely to be dangerous to themselves and/or others than are persons without such illnesses. This is the source of the psychiatrist's traditional social obligation to control "harm to self and/or others," that is, suicide and crime. The ethical dilemmas of psychiatry cannot be resolved as long as the contradictory functions of healing persons and protecting society are united in a single discipline. © 2003 BMJ Publishing Group, Inc.

Language: en