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On Sunday afternoon, September 3, 2006, Wayne Fenton, a prominent schizophrenia expert and an associate director at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), was found dead in his office. He had just seen a 19-year-old patient with schizophrenia who later admitted to the police that he had beaten Fenton with his fists.

This tragic incident was widely publicized and raises, once again, the controversial question about the potential danger posed by people with mental illness. The killing also left many in the mental health and medical communities concerned about their own safety in dealing with psychotic patients. After all, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Dr. Friedman is a professor of clinical psychiatry and the director of the Psychopharmacology Clinic at Weill Cornell Medical College, New York.

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