This article explores several contexts in which psychiatrists may face having to decide
whether to make exceptions to rules or guidelines when treating their patients. Contexts …

Mental health professionals sometimes excessively follow rules and regulations to the point
of neglecting or even injuring their clients. Five vignettes are presented that illustrate how …

A critical controversy is occurring in the USA in regard to physician participation in legal
execution that has worldwide implications for ethics and morality in medicine [1]. It is …

The authors survey the ethical problems confronting psychiatry today. They state that with
rare exceptions psychiatric intervention can be morally justified only with the potential …

When specialists in ethics look at medicine, they look through a glass darkly and distortedly.
We all have a frame we use for our experiencing. 1 However, some frames work better than …

Psychiatrists face many difficult ethical decisions in which they must exercise their discretion.
In the most difficult decisions they confront, there are significant" harms," regardless of what …

In this paper I will be discussing the professional duties of psychiatrists. I will argue that there
is an ethical tension at the heart of psychiatric practice–between the psychiatrist's …

uncertainty about which interventions count as palliative stems from the fact that psychiatry
generally prioritizes symptom management irrespective of diagnosis or specific …

In recent years, psychiatric ethicists have focused on numerous challenges to the doctor-
patient relationship. The third edition of the comprehensive volume Psychiatric Ethics, 1 …

The observation that a crisis of confidence regarding Psychiatry exists is a notion shared
even among psychiatrists themselves. Psychiatry has a checkered history and its alliance …