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June 3, 2009
Michael A. Norko, MD. Future of Psychiatry In the Year 2019: Psychiatry in Law and Public Policy, Psychiatric Times, 26(6).
"Whether you credit the idea to Niels Bohr or Yogi Berra, it is true that predictions are very difficult to make, especially about the future. It is a daunting task, yet obviously an intriguing one, to try to imagine what our field will be like in 10 years or more.
To cope with the limits of prognostication, article size, and personal knowledge (and to limit the extent of how wrong I may be proved by time), I will focus here on events in the realms of ethics and law in psychiatry and the inevitable conflicts between science and public policy and economics that have their origin in those spawning grounds. I will comment on 2 general areas:
• Conflicts related to people our society fears and feels justified in stigmatizing—including sex offenders and people with serious mental illness
• The limits of the sciences of prediction and the ways in which our fears lead us to ignore those limits..."
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