June 28, 2019
Article
These thumbnail sketches of the articles in this Special Report produce an impressionistic sketch of the meaning of the word complicated in psychiatric practice.
August 01, 2018
Article
The authors discuss two fundamental misconceptions: the myth of the patient’s autonomy, and the myth of the incurability of the patient’s illness.
June 28, 2018
Article
If you were the consultant, what issues might you raise in the cases discussed here?
July 11, 2014
Article
Severe alcohol dependence and frequent relapses in this patient prompts his son to produce a durable power of attorney for health care. He demands that the physicians declare his father to lack decision-making capacity. More in this ethics case report.
March 12, 2014
Article
The universe of psychiatric ethics has dramatically expanded. Let us boldly go together where psychiatric ethics has never gone before!
May 14, 2013
Article
How often are you confronted with an ethical dilemma in your clinical practice? How comfortable-and how prepared-are you to deal with these issues? Those are just a few of the questions posed in the Psychiatric Times Ethics Survey-a survey that turned out to be the largest ever of its kind.