This comprehensive review of ethical issues in psychiatric care relates ethics to changes and challenges of society, applies general ethics to specific psychiatric problems, and explorates culture-bound influences on morals, manners and customs.

Ethics in Psychiatry: (1) presents a comprehensive review of ethical issues arising in psychiatric care and research; (2) relates ethical issues to changes and challenges of society; (3) examines the application of general ethics to specific psychiatric problems and relates these to moral implications of psychiatry practice; (4) deals with recently arising ethical problems; (5) contains contributions of leading European ethicists, philosophers, lawyers, historians and psychiatrists; (6) provides a basis for the exploration of culture-bound influences on morals, manners and customs in the light of ethical principles of global validity.

Clearly written description of ethical issues relevant to the care of mentally ill people and psychiatric research Brings together contemporary European points of view Relates practical problems to international codes and currently debated major ethical dilemmas

Autorentext
Norman Sartorius, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Inhalt
The Context.- Societal Framework of Psychiatry.- Stigmatisation of People with Mental Illness and of Psychiatric Institutions.- Economical Framework of Psychiatric Care.- Conflicts of Interest.- Between Legislation and Bioethics: The European Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine.- Ethics Committees for Clinical Research The West-European Paradigm.- Clinical Ethics Committees and Ethics Consultation in Psychiatry.- Principles of Ethics in Psychiatry.- Ethical Principles in Psychiatry: The Declarations of Hawaii and Madrid.- Informed Consent in Psychiatric Practice.- Advance Directives: Balancing Patient's Self-Determination with Professional Paternalism.- Confidentiality.- Justice in Access to and Distribution of Resources in Psychiatry and Mental Health Care.- The Applications of the Ethical Principles in Psychiatric Practice and Research.- Ethics of Diagnosis and Classification in Psychiatry.- Competence Assessment.- General Overview of Ethical Issues in Psychiatric Treatment.- Prevention and Early Treatment.- Ethical Implications of Psychopharmacotherapy.- Ethical Problems in Psychotherapy.- Neuromodulation ECT, rTMS, DBS.- 'Coercive' Measures.- Ethics of Deinstitutionalization.- Ethical Issues in Forensic and Prison Psychiatry.- Treatment of Substance Dependence.- Dementia and End-of-Life Decisions: Ethical Issues A Perspective from The Netherlands.- Ethics of Research with Decisionally Impaired Patients.- Ethical Concerns in Carrying Out Surveys of Psychiatric Morbidity.- Genetics Ethical Implications of Research, Diagnostics and Counseling.- Non-medical Uses of Psychiatry.- Political Abuse of Psychiatry.- Abuse of Psychiatry for Political Purposes in the USSR: A Case-Study and Personal Account of the Efforts to Bring Them to an End.- (Neuro-)Enhancement.- Teaching Ethics in Psychiatry.- Teaching Ethics in Psychiatry.- Conclusions and Summary.- Summary and Conclusions.