Psychiatric nursing: ethical strife

CO Part 1 Society, mental illness and ethics - an overview: forces of creativity and reaction; madness, badness and custodial care; discrimination and tolerance; choas, mental illness and creativity; the development of the psyche-industry; psychiatry, nursing and trephotaxis; blowing the whistle. Part 2 Ethical issues in clinical practice: restraint, respect and retaliation; pressure and eating; the constructive contribution of the service user; the thought police; whose reality is it anyway?; the pathologisation of difference; depression and aggression. Part 3 Ideaological approaches and ethical dilemmas: advocacy and the demystification of expertise (working with power); community initiatives - politics or psychology? (working with the community); assertive outreach - (working with absence); it's not that bad, it's worse (working with thought); adjustments to an insane world - (working with conduct); whose anxiety does medication alleviate? (working with the body); whose feeling ios whom? (working with feeling and experience).

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This text is divided into three main sections which explore the philosophical background, the range of ethical issues arising in clinical practice, and the dilemmas surrounding the ideological approaches to psychiatric practice.