title: [Ethical principles in electronvulsivotherapy].
abstract: ECT or electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a therapeutic technique invented in 1935 but which was really developed after World War II and then spreading widely until the mid 1960s. The source of this technique, and some forms of stigma including films, have participated widely to make it suspect from a moral point of view. The ethical principles that support the establishment of a treatment by ECT are those relating to any action in psychiatry and are based on the one hand on the founding principles of bioethics: autonomy, beneficence, non-malfeasance, and justice, and on the other hand on the information on the technical and consent to this type of care.
authors.affiliation: Service de psychiatrie, département de psychiatrie, faculté de médecine, Hôtel-Dieu de France, université Saint-Joseph, Beyrouth, Liban; UMR ADÉS 7268 - AMU/ EFS/ CNRS, Aix-Marseille université, espace éthique méditerranéen, 27, boulevard Jean-Moulin, 13005 Marseille, France. Electronic address: sami.richa@usj.edu.lb.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Richa
authors.affiliation: 37, avenue Victor-Hugo, 75116 Paris, France.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: De Carvalho
mesh_terms: D004565:Electroconvulsive Therapy / Q000941:ethics*; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000941:ethics
keywords: Autonomie; Autonomy; Bioethics; Bioéthique; Consent; Consentement; ECT; Information; Électrochoc