Abstract
Once common, therapeutic privilege - the practice whereby a physician withholds diagnostic or prognostic information from a patient intending to protect the patient - is now generally seen as unethical. However, instances of therapeutic privilege are common in some areas of clinical psychiatry. We describe therapeutic privilege in the context of borderline personality disorder, discuss the implications of diagnostic non-disclosure on integrated care and offer recommendations to promote diagnostic disclosure for this patient population.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 801-804 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Journal of Medical Ethics |
Volume | 48 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 14 2021 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- applied and professional ethics
- clinical ethics
- ethics
- informed consent
- psychiatry
PubMed: MeSH publication types
- Journal Article