title: Alan Stone and the ethics of forensic psychiatry: an overview.
abstract: In 1982, Alan Stone presented a keynote speech at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL) on the ethics of forensic psychiatry. That speech was sharply critical of the prevailing ethics standards and led forensic psychiatrists to study his ideas carefully. A quarter-century later, he returned to the AAPL's Annual Meeting to present his current thinking. This overview outlines the development of Stone's thought over 25 years and the dialectic among Stone and three critics: Paul Appelbaum, Ezra Griffith, and Stephen Morse. Stone is now more optimistic about the possibility of developing an ethic for forensic psychiatry.
authors.affiliation: George Washington University Medical Center, and Georgetown University Law School, Washington, DC, USA. glennhmiller@gmail.com
authors.forename: Glenn H
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Miller
mesh_terms: D004992:Ethics, Medical / Q000266:history*; D005104:Expert Testimony / Q000941:ethics; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007298:Insanity Defense / Q000266:history*; D012955:Societies, Medical / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States