Psychotherapy is still failing patients: revisiting informed consent—a response to Garson Leder

Compared with mainstream medicine and complementary and alternative therapies, the practice of psychotherapy has enjoyed a relative pass when it comes to ethical evaluation. Therefore, contributions to the, although slowly growing, body of literature on psychotherapy ethics are to be welcomed. In hi...

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Main Author: Blease, Charlotte (Author)
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Published: BMJ Publ. 2021
In: Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2021, Volume: 47, Issue: 7, Pages: 448-449
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