Psychiatric Malpractice

What are the facts about psychiatric malpractice? Is it increasing? If so, how rapidly? What areas of psychiatric practice pose higher risks of legal liability? The anxieties and uncertainties created by the increased threat of being sued for malpractice can interfere with the psychiatrist's provision of good clinical care. Through a general overviewas well as a discussion of specific legal casesthis volume presents the major malpractice traps encountered in everyday psychiatric practice.