Renée Binder, MD: Helping Us Claim Our Future

[摘要] biographydangerousnesspsychometryOn October 22, 1998, a landmark presidential address was given at the opening of the 29th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL) in New Orleans, Louisiana. Renée Binder, MD, the second woman to serve as AAPL President, stood well-prepared behind the lectern on the conference ballroom dais. She posed a seemingly simple yet powerful question that foreshadowed an important question our field would be asked to address over the next several decades: Are the mentally ill dangerous.

[学科分类] 儿科学

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