Reviews for Psychiatric-legal decision making by the mental health practitioner

The average rating for Psychiatric-legal decision making by the mental health practitioner based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-09-12 00:00:00 Timothy Heidt Ten, academic but accessible, essays dealing with interpersonal experience and interpersonal action. The subjects considered relate to unconscious pretence, phantasy and the effects of collusion and disconfirmation in interpersonal relationships. Despite being written in the sixties it deals with timeless issues, and is an unsettling disclosure on the methods employed to combat ontological insecurity and the games we play with ourselves that sustain false-selves through self-betrayal.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-08-27 00:00:00 Songmei Wong This is not a review: I didn't rate this 5 star, implying relevance of Laing's conception of self and other in present day social sciences and/or psy disciplines. Laing's scholarship continues to fascinates me in the context of the social scientific debates of the 1960s and 1970s as well as the social movements of the time, implicating the psychiatric nosology, etc. Laing should be more acknowledged and his work further incorporated in social scientific syllabi. I would have totally benefitted from Laing's wealth of scholarship as my main source, had I been an academic in the sixties and seventies, which I wish was true....