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28 J. Psychiatry & L. 103 (2000)
Psychiatric Opinion Without Examination

handle is hein.journals/jpsych28 and id is 107 raw text is: The Journal of Psychiatry & Law 28/Spring 2000 COMMENTARY Psychiatric opinion without examination BY PROFESSOR RALPH SLOVENKO The ethics of psychiatry and of the law are at variance on psychiatric opinion without examination. The issue was sparked by an article in Ralph Ginzburg's Fact magazine in which 1,846 psychiatrists (about 10% of the membership of the American Psychiatric Association), during the 1964 Pres- idential campaign, responded no to the question Is Barry Goldwater fit to be President of the United States? The ridicule leveled against psychiatry for its readiness to offer damaging opinions (although by only a small minority of the profession) led the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to adopt the Goldwater rule.' The following was added to Section 7 as paragraph 3 to the American Medical Association's Principles of Medical Ethics, annotated by the APA to apply to psychiatry: On occasion psychiatrists are asked for an opinion about an individ- ual who is in the light of public attention, or who has disclosed information about himself/herself through public media. It is uneth- ical for a psychiatrist to offer a professional opinion unless he/she has conducted an examination and has been granted proper autho- rization for such a statement. © 2000 by Federal Legal Publications, Inc.

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