CORRECTION AND RETRIBUTION IN THE CRIMINAL LAW

LAWRENCE FRIEDMANAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 114, Number 5

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.5.421

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Dr. Board's objectives can only tend toward a happier society. His failure to distinguish between suggestion and analysis prejudices his worthwhile objectives in the following ways:

1. It leaves him unarmed against the resistences of society which go unrecognized.

2. It compromises the effect of the psychiatrist's most potent weapons,—expert advice and education, by concealing them in a tendentious special plea for the values of the psychiatrist.

3. In the manner of so many current political positions, it blurs the meaning of society's conflicting values by insisting that they are perfectly realized in the tissue of compromises and violations that alone can give them expression.

4. Finally, one suspects that there will come a time when the psychiatrist, accustomed to the stationary ethical foundation he has artfully built and unprepared for the heaving sea of felt principles, will feel in himself the upsurge of the rejected "contaminant" and be overcome by a moral malaise without remedy.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 114 • Number 5 • November 1957

Pages: 421 - 423

PubMed: 13470111

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Published in print: November 1957

Published online: 1 April 2006

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LAWRENCE FRIEDMAN

V. A. Hospital, West Haven, Conn.

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CORRECTION AND RETRIBUTION IN THE CRIMINAL LAW

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