The psychiatric patient's right to effective treatment: implications of Osheroff v. Chestnut Lodge.

摘要: Although Osheroff v. Chestnut Lodge never reached final court adjudication, the case generated widespread discussion in psychiatric, legal, and lay circles. The author served as a consultant to Dr. testified that failed follow through with appropriate biological treatment for its own diagnosis of depression, focusing instead on Osheroff's presumed personality disorder treating him intensive long-term individual psychotherapy. suggests this involves proposed right patient effective treatments whose efficacy has been demonstrated have priority over not established.