The Virtuous Psychiatrist: Character Ethics in Psychiatric Practice (International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry)

251 Pages·2010·1.85 MB·English

by  Jennifer Radden

The Virtuous Psychiatrist
International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
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The Virtuous
Psychiatrist
Character Ethics in Psychiatric Practice

Jennifer Radden
John Z. Sadler
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2010
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Radden, Jennifer.
The virtuous psychiatrist : character ethics in psychiatric practice /
Jennifer Radden, John Z. Sadler.
p. ; cm. — (International perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry)
Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-0-19-538937-1
1. Psychiatric ethics. I. Sadler, John Z., 1953– II. Title.
III. Series: International perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry.
[DNLM: 1. Psychiatry—ethics. 2. Ethical Theory. 3. Professional Role.
4. Virtues. WM 62 R124v 2010]
RC455.2.E8R33 2010
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For Joan M. Fordyce, who understands the art of unselfi ng.
Jennifer Radden
For my family, because my virtue should honor your love.
John Z. Sadler
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Acknowledgments
This project was completed with support from the US Federal Government.
We gratefully acknowledge grants from the National Library of Medicine
(2002–2005) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (2000).
In addition, Jennifer Radden benefi ted from time as a visiting scholar at
the Center for Human Bioethics at Monash University (1999) and as the HLA
Hart visiting research fellow at Merton College, Oxford (2006).
Opportunities to try out these ideas with practitioners and moral phi-
losophers were provided by the Ethics Board at McLean Hospital in Belmont;
the departments of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston
(1999), and St Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne (2005); the Massachusetts
Mental Health Center Law and Psychiatry Program (2005); the American
Psychiatric Association Taskforce on Ethics (2001–2008), at meetings
of the American Psychiatric Association (2004) and the Association for
the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry (2005); the New Zealand
Bioethics Conference (2006); Lancaster University Philosophy Department
(2006); the International Network of Philosophy and Psychiatry (2008); and
the University of Pennsylvania Schools of Medicine, Social Policy, and Law,
and the Strecker Psychiatric Society (2009). The advice, encouragement, and
gentle direction provided by individuals in each of these settings have con-
tributed incalculably.
viii Acknowledgments
Others also deserve heartfelt thanks from Jennifer Radden, including
many working in moral philosophy and virtue theory; peers on the Executive
Board of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry,
members of PHAEDRA, colleagues at the Philosophy Department of the
University of Massachusetts at Boston. Finally, thanks go to Peter Ohlin at
Oxford University Press, editor without peer; Frank Keefe, unmatched critical
reader; Beatrice Radden Keefe, cover design expert extraordinaire; and not
to be forgotten, James G. Keefe.
Contents
Introduction 3
1 Psychiatric Ethics as Professional and Biomedical Ethics 11
2 The Distinctiveness of the Psychiatric Setting 33
3 Psychiatric Ethics as Virtue Ethics 61
4 Elements of a Gender- Sensitive Ethics for Psychiatry 85
5 Some Virtues for Psychiatrists 105
6 Character and Social Role 151
7 Case Studies in Psychiatric Virtues 175
8 Conclusion 199
References 205
Author Index 227
Subject Index 231