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Published Online: 1 June 2000

Patient Autonomy

Publication: Psychiatric Services

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.51.6.820

To the Editor: I can't understand how, in the March 2000 issue, Dr. Workman and his associates (1) could leave Dr. Thomas Szasz out of their discussion on autonomy. All of the work Appelbaum and Grisso did for the MacArthur Foundation only confirms Dr. Szasz' position. They wrote, "Mental illness alone does not invariably impair decision-making capacities"(2).

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Mr. Herman is a contributing editor to the Szasz Web page at www.enabling.org/ia/szasz/index.html. He lives on Long Island, New York.

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Workman RH Jr, McCullough LB, Molinari V, et al: Clinical and ethical implications of impaired executive control functions for patient autonomy. Psychiatric Services 51:359-363, 2000

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Grisso T, Appelbaum PS: MacArthur Treatment Competence Study. Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association 1:125-127, 1995

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Psychiatric Services

Volume 51 • Number 6 • June 2000

Pages: 820

PubMed: 10828126

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Published online: 1 June 2000

Published in print: June 2000

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