Ethics in Psychiatry

1. Societal Framework of Psychiatry
Hanfried Helmchen, Norman Sartorius

2. Stigmatisation of People with Mental Illness and of Psychiatric Institutions
Nisha Mehta, Graham Thornicroft

3. Economical Framework of Psychiatric Care
Christina M. van der Feltz-Cornelis

4. Conflicts of Interest
Giovanni A. Fava

5. Between Legislation and Bioethics: The European Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine
Felicity Callard

6. Ethics Committees for Clinical Research – The West-European Paradigm
Elmar Doppelfeld

7. Clinical Ethics Committees and Ethics Consultation in Psychiatry
Jochen Vollmann

8. Ethical Principles in Psychiatry: The Declarations of Hawaii and Madrid
Otto W. Steenfeldt-Foss

9. Informed Consent in Psychiatric Practice
Hanfried Helmchen

10. Advance Directives: Balancing Patient’s Self-Determination with Professional Paternalism
Hans-Martin Sass, Arnd T. May

11. Confidentiality
Roy McClelland

12. Justice in Access to and Distribution of Resources in Psychiatry and Mental Health Care
Ruud ter Meulen

13. Ethics of Diagnosis and Classification in Psychiatry
Juan José López-Ibor, Maria-Inès López-Ibor, Hanfried Helmchen

14. Competence Assessment
Lienhard Maeck, Gabriela Stoppe

15. General Overview of Ethical Issues in Psychiatric Treatment
Hanfried Helmchen

16. Prevention and Early Treatment
Joachim Klosterkötter, Frauke Schultze-Lutter

17. Ethical Implications of Psychopharmacotherapy
Hanfried Helmchen

18. Ethical Problems in Psychotherapy
Ulrich Rüger, Christian Reimer

19. Neuromodulation – ECT, rTMS, DBS
Matthis Synofzik, Thomas E. Schlaepfer

20. ‘Coercive’ Measures
George Szmukler

21. Ethics of Deinstitutionalization
Dirk Claassen, Stefan Priebe

22. Ethical Issues in Forensic and Prison Psychiatry
Norbert Konrad, Birgit Völlm

23. Treatment of Substance Dependence
Ambros Uchtenhagen

24. Dementia and End-of-Life Decisions: Ethical Issues – A Perspective from The Netherlands
Ron L.P. Berghmans

25. Ethics of Research with Decisionally Impaired Patients
Giovanni Maio

26. Ethical Concerns in Carrying Out Surveys of Psychiatric Morbidity
Howard Meltzer, Traolach S. Brugha

27. Genetics – Ethical Implications of Research, Diagnostics and Counseling
Peter Propping

28. Political Abuse of Psychiatry
Norman Sartorius, Hanfried Helmchen

29. Abuse of Psychiatry for Political Purposes in the USSR: A Case-Study and Personal Account of the Efforts to Bring Them to an End
Robert Voren

30. (Neuro-)Enhancement
Bettina Schöne-Seifert, Davinia Talbot

31. Teaching Ethics in Psychiatry
Deborah Bowman

32. Summary and Conclusions
Norman Sartorius, Hanfried Helmchen

Keywords: Philosophy, Ethics, Psychiatry, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Medical Education, Medical Law