Ethical Issues in Mental Illness

Caroline Dunn

’Caroline Dunn has a rare ability to combine empathic use of first-hand accounts of the day-to-day experience of service users, with a strong philosophical eye. The ’voiceless patient’, a product of traditional bioethics as much of traditional biomedicine, is voiceless no more.’ KWM Fulford, Professor of Philosophy & Mental Health, University of Warwick and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, University of Oxford ’A small school of thinkers and researchers has followed the anti-psychiatry movement with sympathy and is satisfied with the newly won right of the mentally ill....the author hopes that education will successfully teach us and our children to accept that mentally ill people share humanity with us.’ Ethical Perspectives.

• Contents: Introduction; Mental illness and autonomy; Autonomy and treatment models of mental illness; Involuntary hospitalization and treatment; Psychotropic medication; ECT and psychosurgery; Psychotherapy; Community care; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.