Ethical Issues in Contemporary Psychiatry, An Issue of Psychiatric Clinics of North America
- 1st Edition, Volume 49-3 - August 6, 2026
- Latest edition
- Editors: Ryan J. Dougherty, Joanna Smolenski
- Language: English
In this issue of Psychiatric Clinics, guest editors Drs. Ryan J. Dougherty and Joanna Smolenski bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Ethical Issues in Contempor… Read more
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Description
In this issue of Psychiatric Clinics, guest editors Drs. Ryan J. Dougherty and Joanna Smolenski bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Ethical Issues in Contemporary Psychiatry. Top experts examine the tensions between traditional clinical approaches and ethical frameworks in light of emerging social movements and technologies, covering various topics from clinical decision-making to diagnostic categories. By engaging with these debates, the issue deepens our understanding of psychiatry’s contemporary landscape and offers insights into how to strengthen patient-centered practices, with implications for both policy and practice.
Key features
Key features
- Contains 13 relevant, practice-oriented topics including coercion and influence in psychiatric decision-making; epistemic injustice and psychiatric service users; empathy, autism, and neurodiversity; ethical and cultural perspectives on psychedelics in treatment; telepsychiatry; ethics of participatory mental health research; and more.
- Provides in-depth clinical reviews on ethical issues in contemporary psychiatry, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
- Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
Readership
Readership
Psychiatrists
Table of contents
Table of contents
Implications of Critical Perspectives for Psychiatric Practice
Capacity Building Through Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy: Navigating Social Determinants of Health
Antidepressant Use and Withdrawal: A Review of Current Evidence and Clinical Recommendations
Palliative Psychiatry: Concerns
Coercion and Influence in Psychiatric Services: Frameworks and Future Directions
Epistemic Injustice and Psychiatric Service Users: The Denial of Capacity as a Special Epistemic Harm
Participatory Research in Contemporary Psychiatry: A Framework for Authentic Integration of First-Person Perspectives
Autism, Empathy and Neurodiversity
Ethics in Telepsychiatry
Towards Human-Centered Digital Health Interventions
Capacity Building Through Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy: Navigating Social Determinants of Health
Antidepressant Use and Withdrawal: A Review of Current Evidence and Clinical Recommendations
Palliative Psychiatry: Concerns
Coercion and Influence in Psychiatric Services: Frameworks and Future Directions
Epistemic Injustice and Psychiatric Service Users: The Denial of Capacity as a Special Epistemic Harm
Participatory Research in Contemporary Psychiatry: A Framework for Authentic Integration of First-Person Perspectives
Autism, Empathy and Neurodiversity
Ethics in Telepsychiatry
Towards Human-Centered Digital Health Interventions
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Volume: 49-3
- Published: August 7, 2026
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
RD
Ryan J. Dougherty
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USAJS
Joanna Smolenski
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Clinical Ethicist, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA