A recently published study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that news reports frequently link mental illness with acts of violence, giving the public the impression that people with mental illness are prone to violence when, in fact, only a small percentage of them are. We talk this over with Mark Komrad, Baltimore-based psychiatrist on the clinical and teaching staffs of both Sheppard Pratt and Johns Hopkins hospitals.Mark Komrad also serves as ethicist-in-residence at Sheppard Pratt and he is a member of the ethics committee of the American Psychiatric Association. He is the author of "You Need Help: A Step-by-Step Plan to Convince a Loved One to Get Counseling." We start the show with a chat about Section 7.3 of the APA's ethics principles — something known as the Goldwater Rule and dating to the 1964 presidential election, but with relevance to the present campaign for the White House.
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