Complicity of the medical and psychiatric professionals in torture.
The psychiatric professionals of the 19th century, alienists and neurologists, were primarily concerned with severe pathology such as schizophrenia and mania.
They had greater access to expert advice, counseling, psychiatric professionals and attorneys.
A16 Appointments to a national church panel on sexual abuse by the clergy were criticized by victims' groups and renewed a debate among psychiatric professionals.
The question of whether to permit smoking, always a contentious one, has special urgency for both psychiatric professionals and patients.
Many other psychiatric professionals, however, have questioned the logic of trying to codify a concept as inherently subjective as "evil".
The pastoral counseling program is taught by leading psychiatric professionals, and includes formal classroom instruction, role-playing, clinical experience and mentored field work.
But Mr. Deiker's efforts have been praised in letters written by members of his medical staff and other psychiatric professionals in the state.