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Applied Ethics in Mental Health Care: An Interdisciplinary Reader

Dominic A. Sisti, Arthur L. Caplan, and Hila Rimon-Greenspan

Abstract

This book discusses some of the most critical ethical issues in mental health care today, including the moral dimensions of addiction, patient autonomy and compulsory treatment, privacy and confidentiality, and the definition of mental illness itself. Although debates over these issues are ongoing, there are few comprehensive resources for addressing such dilemmas in the practice of psychology, psychiatry, social work, and other behavioral and mental health care professions. This book meets that need, providing foundational background for undergraduate, graduate, and professional courses. Topi ... More

Keywords: Ethics, Psychiatry, Psychology, Bioethics, Mental Illness

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2013 Print ISBN-13: 9780262019682
Published to MIT Press Scholarship Online: May 2014 DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262019682.001.0001

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Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Dominic A. Sisti, editor

Arthur L. Caplan, editor

Hila Rimon-Greenspan, editor

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Series Foreword

Foreword

Acknowledgments

I Foundational Questions

1 Contested Boundaries: Psychiatry, Disease, and Diagnosis

Charles E. Rosenberg

2 Moot Questions in Psychiatric Ethics

Ralph B. Little, and Edward A. Strecker

3 The Ethics of Psychotherapy

Toksoz B. Karasu

4 Character Virtues in Psychiatric Practice

Jennifer Radden, and John Z. Sadler

II Capacity, Coercion, and Consent

5 Psychiatric Advance Directives and the Treatment of Committed Patients

Paul S. Appelbaum

6 Denying Autonomy in Order to Create It: The Paradox of Forcing Treatment upon Addicts

Arthur L. Caplan

7 End-Stage Anorexia: Criteria for Competence to Refuse Treatment

Margery Gans, and Willam B. Gunn Jr.

8 “Personality Disorder” and Capacity to Make Treatment Decisions

George Szmukler

III Violence, Trauma, and Treatment

9 Sanctity of Human Life in War: Ethics and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

James A. Beshai, and Richard J. Tushup

10 The Experience of Violent Injury for Young African American Men: The Meaning of Being a “Sucker”

John A. Rich, and David A. Stone

11 The Psychological Impact of Rape Victims’ Experiences with the Legal, Medical, and Mental Health Systems

Rebecca Campbell

IV Addiction

12 Addiction as Accomplishment: The Discursive Construction of Disease

Craig Reinarman

13 The Ethics of Addiction

Thomas S. Szasz

14 Myths about the Treatment of Addiction

Charles P. O’Brien, and A. Thomas McLellan

15 Ethical Considerations in Caring for People Living with Addictions

Laura Weiss Roberts, and Kim Bullock

V Mental Illness and the Courts

16 Confidentiality and the Prediction of Dangerousness in Psychiatry

William J. Curran

17 Madness versus Badness: The Ethical Tension between the Recovery Movement and Forensic Psychiatry

Claire L. Pouncey, and Jonathan M. Lukens

18 Ethical Considerations of Multiple Roles in Forensic Services

Robert Henley Woody

19 Watch Your Language: A Review of the Use of Stigmatizing Language by Canadian Judges

Michelle Black, and Jocelyn Downie

VI Therapeutic Boundaries

20 Boundary Violation Ethics: Some Conceptual Clarifications

Jennifer Radden

21 The Price of a Gift: An Approach to Receiving Gifts from Patients in Psychiatric Practice

David H. Brendel, James Chu, Jennifer Radden, Howard Leeper, Harrison G. Pope, Jacqueline Samson, Gail Tsimprea, and J. Alexander Bodkin

22 How Certain Boundaries and Ethics Diminish Therapeutic Effectiveness

Arnold A. Lazarus

23 Boundary Issues in Social Work: Managing Dual Relationships

Frederic G. Reamer

24 Patient-Targeted Googling: The Ethics of Searching Online for Patient Information

Brian K. Clinton, Benjamin C. Silverman, and David H. Brendel

25 Professional Boundaries in the Era of the Internet

Glen O. Gabbard, Kristin A. Kassaw, and Gonzalo Perez-Garcia

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Index