Updates to this edition:

• Clinical and legal issues in the use of clozapine in treatment of schizophrenia

• Clinical information and new cases involving tardive dyskinesia

• Changes in civil and criminal law regarding right to refuse treatment

• An update of clinical guidelines and legal regulations of ECT

• An update on suicide risk assessment and new legal cases involving suicide

• An update on violence risk assessment and new legal cases involving the duty to protect endangered third parties

• New statutes and criminal sanctions regarding sexual misconduct

• New statutes limiting the liability of therapists toward third parties who are injured or killed by patients

• Changes in the relationship between psychiatrists and nonmedical therapists

• Regulatory developments regarding physician impairment

• Numerous tables and an updated glossary of legal terms

• New section on common terms and abbreviations in legal citations