- Title Pages
- Series Foreword
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- I Foundational Questions
- 1 Contested Boundaries: Psychiatry, Disease, and Diagnosis
- 2 Moot Questions in Psychiatric Ethics
- 3 The Ethics of Psychotherapy
- 4 Character Virtues in Psychiatric Practice
- II Capacity, Coercion, and Consent
- 5 Psychiatric Advance Directives and the Treatment of Committed Patients
- 6 Denying Autonomy in Order to Create It: The Paradox of Forcing Treatment upon Addicts
- 7 End-Stage Anorexia: Criteria for Competence to Refuse Treatment
- 8 “Personality Disorder” and Capacity to Make Treatment Decisions
- III Violence, Trauma, and Treatment
- 9 Sanctity of Human Life in War: Ethics and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
- 10 The Experience of Violent Injury for Young African American Men: The Meaning of Being a “Sucker”
- 11 The Psychological Impact of Rape Victims’ Experiences with the Legal, Medical, and Mental Health Systems
- IV Addiction
- 12 Addiction as Accomplishment: The Discursive Construction of Disease
- 13 The Ethics of Addiction
- 14 Myths about the Treatment of Addiction
- 15 Ethical Considerations in Caring for People Living with Addictions
- V Mental Illness and the Courts
- 16 Confidentiality and the Prediction of Dangerousness in Psychiatry
- 17 Madness versus Badness: The Ethical Tension between the Recovery Movement and Forensic Psychiatry
- 18 Ethical Considerations of Multiple Roles in Forensic Services
- 19 Watch Your Language: A Review of the Use of Stigmatizing Language by Canadian Judges
- VI Therapeutic Boundaries
- 20 Boundary Violation Ethics: Some Conceptual Clarifications
- 21 The Price of a Gift: An Approach to Receiving Gifts from Patients in Psychiatric Practice
- 22 How Certain Boundaries and Ethics Diminish Therapeutic Effectiveness
- 23 Boundary Issues in Social Work: Managing Dual Relationships
- 24 Patient-Targeted Googling: The Ethics of Searching Online for Patient Information
- 25 Professional Boundaries in the Era of the Internet
- Contributors
- Permissions and Credits
- Index
Sanctity of Human Life in War: Ethics and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
Sanctity of Human Life in War: Ethics and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
- Chapter:
- (p.125) 9 Sanctity of Human Life in War: Ethics and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
- Source:
- Applied Ethics in Mental Health Care
- Author(s):
James A. Beshai
Richard J. Tushup
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
This reflective paper focuses on the moral and ethical difficulties medical care providers meet in applying DSM-IV criteria of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in therapy and in Compensation and Pension Examinations. Providers may be less interested in articulating a philosophy of life or their own ontology than about documenting care for the patient or providing effective management of symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The veteran comes for assessment or therapy after an embodiment of war conflicts. Examiners and therapists spend time in clinical judgments and ethical consideration. Ethical decisions involve the sanctity of human life and the distinction made between acceptable civil and war behavior. Insight into the conflicting values found in the veterans’ struggle to cope with the stress of war is needed.
Keywords: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, trauma
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- Title Pages
- Series Foreword
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- I Foundational Questions
- 1 Contested Boundaries: Psychiatry, Disease, and Diagnosis
- 2 Moot Questions in Psychiatric Ethics
- 3 The Ethics of Psychotherapy
- 4 Character Virtues in Psychiatric Practice
- II Capacity, Coercion, and Consent
- 5 Psychiatric Advance Directives and the Treatment of Committed Patients
- 6 Denying Autonomy in Order to Create It: The Paradox of Forcing Treatment upon Addicts
- 7 End-Stage Anorexia: Criteria for Competence to Refuse Treatment
- 8 “Personality Disorder” and Capacity to Make Treatment Decisions
- III Violence, Trauma, and Treatment
- 9 Sanctity of Human Life in War: Ethics and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
- 10 The Experience of Violent Injury for Young African American Men: The Meaning of Being a “Sucker”
- 11 The Psychological Impact of Rape Victims’ Experiences with the Legal, Medical, and Mental Health Systems
- IV Addiction
- 12 Addiction as Accomplishment: The Discursive Construction of Disease
- 13 The Ethics of Addiction
- 14 Myths about the Treatment of Addiction
- 15 Ethical Considerations in Caring for People Living with Addictions
- V Mental Illness and the Courts
- 16 Confidentiality and the Prediction of Dangerousness in Psychiatry
- 17 Madness versus Badness: The Ethical Tension between the Recovery Movement and Forensic Psychiatry
- 18 Ethical Considerations of Multiple Roles in Forensic Services
- 19 Watch Your Language: A Review of the Use of Stigmatizing Language by Canadian Judges
- VI Therapeutic Boundaries
- 20 Boundary Violation Ethics: Some Conceptual Clarifications
- 21 The Price of a Gift: An Approach to Receiving Gifts from Patients in Psychiatric Practice
- 22 How Certain Boundaries and Ethics Diminish Therapeutic Effectiveness
- 23 Boundary Issues in Social Work: Managing Dual Relationships
- 24 Patient-Targeted Googling: The Ethics of Searching Online for Patient Information
- 25 Professional Boundaries in the Era of the Internet
- Contributors
- Permissions and Credits
- Index
