Ethical Limits of the Therapeutic Relationship

Abstract

Psychiatric Annals | From the time of the origin of the Code of Hammurabi in the twenty-fifth century, BC, physicians have felt a great need for a set of ethical rules to guide their conduct. Through the time of Hippocrates in the fourth century, BC, and through various additions and modifications in the intervening centuries,1 we have arrived at our modern Principles of Medical Ethics of the American Medical