How to treat a patient with a dissociative identity disorder and how to manage a threat made by one of the patient's personalities.

Although sharing health records with psychiatric patients may cause harm, clinicians also must consider beneficence and autonomy in making this decision.

Benefits and risks of outpatient commitment are a means for managing mental illness in patients who are homeless.

Benefits and risks of outpatient commitment are a means for managing mental illness in patients who are homeless.

A carefully constructed consent and treatment plan is outlined for a neglected and abused child hospitalized with a severe behavioral disorder.

Psychiatrists face difficulties when deciding on treatment plans for patients who are not interested in receiving help or are lacking the capacity to make responsible decisions.

Psychiatrists face difficulties when deciding on treatment plans for patients who are not interested in receiving help or are lacking the capacity to make responsible decisions.

Psychiatrists face difficulties when deciding on treatment plans for patients who are not interested in receiving help or are lacking the capacity to make responsible decisions.

When deciding whether a pregnant woman will take antidepressants that pose a slight risk to the fetus, the patient and doctor must each make value-based determinations about whether absolute protection of the fetus is more important than preventing the mother’s probable suffering.

The graphic novel Swallow Me Whole highlights the need for patient-centered care that engages not only patients but also extended family and the community.