title: [Ethical problems in psychiatry].
abstract: Ethical problems in psychiatry are many-fold. The questions about preventive seclusion on one hand and ethics in psychiatric research on the other hand deserve particular emphasis. Preventive seclusion has been covered in some reviews; based on the convention on human rights of the WHO, it is applied in a manner that the patient has a guarantee for a decision by judiciary procedure whether his seclusion conforms to law. It is a distinct disadvantage in this context that only treatment of patients that endanger others or themselves is regulated. For many other patients in serious need for treatment the actual situation is problematic when-as is common in this group-insight into their state of illness is lacking. Another important problem is posed to ethical committees responsible for approval of research. An appropriate prerequisite is a broad political spectrum in the electing body for these committees, in order to exclude one-sidedness in any direction.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Basel.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Pöldinger
mesh_terms: D003134:Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders; D017041:Ethics Committees; D004995:Ethics, Professional; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D010356:Patient Isolation; D011570:Psychiatry; D012106:Research
vernacular_title: Ethische Probleme in der Psychiatrie.