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The Psychiatric Patient’s Right to Effective Treatment: Implications of Osheroff v. Chestnut Lodge

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Although Osheroff v. Chestnut Lodge never reached final court adjudication, the case generated widespread discussion in psychiatric, legal, and lay circles. The author served as a consultant to Dr. Osheroff and testified that Chestnut Lodge failed to follow through with appropriate biological treatment for its own diagnosis of depression, focusing instead on Dr. Osheroff's presumed personality disorder diagnosis and treating him with intensive long-term individual psychotherapy. The author suggests that this case involves the proposed right of the patient to effective treatment and that treatments whose efficacy has been demonstrated have priority over treatments whose efficacy has not been established.
Reprinted from Am J Psychiatry 1990; 147:409–418, with permission from American Psychiatric Association Publishing. Publishing. Copyright © 1990

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Received: 15 November 1988
Accepted: 3 March 1989
Published in print: Fall 2022
Published online: 25 October 2022

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Gerald L. Klerman, M.D.
From the Department of Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical Center, New York. Address reprint requests to Dr. Klerman, New York Hospital, Cornell University Medical College, Payne Whitney Clinic, 525 East 68th St., New York, NY 10021.

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