The Context -- Societal Framework of Psychiatry -- Stigmatisation of People with Mental Illness and of Psychiatric Institutions -- Economical Framework of Psychiatric Care -- Conflicts of Interest -- Between Legislation and Bioethics: The European Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine -- Ethics Committees for Clinical Research – The West-European Paradigm -- Clinical Ethics Committees and Ethics Consultation in Psychiatry -- Principles of Ethics in Psychiatry -- Ethical Principles in Psychiatry: The Declarations of Hawaii and Madrid -- Informed Consent in Psychiatric Practice -- Advance Directives: Balancing Patient’s Self-Determination with Professional Paternalism -- Confidentiality -- Justice in Access to and Distribution of Resources in Psychiatry and Mental Health Care -- The Applications of the Ethical Principles in Psychiatric Practice and Research -- Ethics of Diagnosis and Classification in Psychiatry -- Competence Assessment -- General Overview of Ethical Issues in Psychiatric Treatment -- Prevention and Early Treatment -- Ethical Implications of Psychopharmacotherapy -- Ethical Problems in Psychotherapy -- Neuromodulation – ECT, rTMS, DBS -- ‘Coercive’ Measures -- Ethics of Deinstitutionalization -- Ethical Issues in Forensic and Prison Psychiatry -- Treatment of Substance Dependence -- Dementia and End-of-Life Decisions: Ethical Issues – A Perspective from The Netherlands -- Ethics of Research with Decisionally Impaired Patients -- Ethical Concerns in Carrying Out Surveys of Psychiatric Morbidity -- Genetics – Ethical Implications of Research, Diagnostics and Counseling -- Non-medical Uses of Psychiatry -- Political Abuse of Psychiatry -- Abuse of Psychiatry for Political Purposes in the USSR: A Case-Study and Personal Account of the Efforts to Bring Them to an End -- (Neuro-)Enhancement -- Teaching Ethics in Psychiatry -- Teaching Ethics in Psychiatry -- Conclusions and Summary -- Summary and Conclusions.

Ethics in Psychiatry: (1) presents a comprehensive review of ethical issues arising in psychiatric care and research; (2) relates ethical issues to changes and challenges of society; (3) examines the application of general ethics to specific psychiatric problems and relates these to moral implications of psychiatric practice; (4) deals with recently arising ethical problems; (5) contains contributions of leading European ethicists, philosophers, lawyers, historians and psychiatrists; (6) provides a basis for the exploration of culture-bound influences on morals, manners and customs in the light of ethical principles of global validity.