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I first became involved in looking at the ethical issues in forensic psychiatry for the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law when the Academy decided to see about developing ethical standards or guidelines. This chapter represents my experience in working to develop such guidelines, which then developed into a chapter in the book on psychiatric ethics by Block and Chodoff [1]. Since then, I have had time to reflect further on ethical problems of forensic psychiatry.
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Rappeport, J.R. (1986). Ethical Issues in Forensic Psychiatry. In: Carmi, A., Schneider, S., Hefez, A. (eds) Psychiatry — Law and Ethics. Medicolegal Library, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82574-3_41
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