Psychiatric Ethics

ABOUT THIS BOOK

• A long awaited new edition of the standard text in the field of psychiatric ethics, providing an up to date overview of the field
• With the increasing power of the pharmaceutical industry, this is a volume more relevant in the current age than ever before, and one that all those involved in practice need to digest
• Provides an in-depth discussion of the ethical issues most relevant to psychiatry, addressing clinical, research, policy, legal, cultural, and philosophical issues in the field

New to this edition

• Includes 5 new chapters on narrative ethics, the psychiatrist and the pharmaceutical industry, neuroethics, trauma and PTSD, and consultation-liaison psychiatry
• All other chapters have been completely updated

Ethical issues are pivotal to the practice of psychiatry. Anyone involved in psychiatric practice and mental healthcare has to be aware of the range of ethical issues relevant to their profession. An increased professional commitment to accountability, in parallel with a growing "consumer" movement has paved the way for a creative engagement with the ethical movement.

The bestselling 'Psychiatric Ethics' has carved out a niche for itself as the major comprehensive text and core reference in the field, covering a range of complex ethical dilemmas which face clinicians and researchers in their everyday practice. This new edition takes a fresh look at recent trends and developments at the interface between ethics and psychiatric practice.

Coming ten years after the third edition, the editors have observed several emerging aspects of psychiatric practice requiring coverage, as a result, 5 new chapters have been added, including cutting edge and controversial topics - such as neuroethics, trauma/PTSD, and the relationship between psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry. All other chapters have been fully revised and updated. The book will continue to be essential reading for psychiatrists, psychologists, other mental health professionals, and bioethicists, as well as of interest to policy makers, managers and lawyers.

Readership: Psychiatrists, whether in training or practice. Lawyers;bioethicists;

AUTHOR INFORMATION

Edited by Sidney Bloch, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne and Senior Psychiatrist, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, and Stephen Green, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington DC, USA

REVIEWS

"The authors provide a wealth of practical experience combined with thoughtful discussion and intriguing questions... It lays a strong foundation for a comprehensive and balanced view of the ethical landscape... This book is an essential read for those in the field of mental health." - Steven T. Herron, MD, University of Arizona Heath Sciences Center

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part I - Historical, Philosophical and Social Context
1: Sidney Bloch & Stephen A Green: The scope of psychiatric ethics
2: David F Musto: A historical perspective
3: Tom L Beauchamp: The philosophical basis of psychiatric ethics
4: Richard Martinez: Narrative ethics
5: K W M Fulford: Values and psychiatry
6: Margaret Coady: The nature of professions: implications for psychiatry
7: Paul Chodoff: The abuse of psychiatry
8: James E Sabin & Norman Daniels: Allocation of mental health resources
9: Stephen A Green: The psychiatrist and the pharmaceutical industry
10: Sidney Bloch & Russell Pargiter: Codes of ethics

Part II - Core Issues in Psychiatric Ethics
11: David I Joseph & Melissa Goldstein: Confidentiality
12: Roger Peele & Paul Chodoff: Involuntary hospitalization and deinstitutionalization
13: Sidney Bloch & David Heyd: Suicide
14: Glen O Gabbard: Boundary violations
15: Franklin Miller & Don Rosenstein: Psychiatric research
16: Anne Farmer, Charlotte Allan & Peter McGuffin: Psychiatric genetics
17: Stephen L Morse: Neuroethics

Part III - Ethical Aspects of Clinical Psychiatry
18: Linda Kader & Christos Pantelis: Drug treatment
19: Jeremy Holmes & Gwen Adshead: The psychotherapies
20: Adrian Sondheimer & Peter Jensen: Child and adolescent psychiatry
21: Catherine Oppenheimer: Psychiatry and the elderly
22: Thomas G Gutheil: Forensic psychiatry
23: George Szmukler: Community psychiatry
24: Garry Walter & Michael Robertson: Trauma and PTSD
25: Marguerite Lederberg & Tomer Levin: Consultation-liaison psychiatry