Overview

The purpose of this book is to offer a more adequate framework for discussing and approaching moral issues arising in treatment. The framework for this moral paradigm centers on the concept of moral functioning. The chapters explore the implications of a functional paradigm for understanding the clinician's role in dealing with the moral aspects of several common clinical problems: influencing patients, deciding on the direction of treatment, understanding problems in caring, approaching moral dilemmas, and dealing with unfair pain and with moral failure. The last two chapters discuss the therapeutic potential of moral growth and transformation, and the possibility of achieving needed integration through the use of a moral paradigm.

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<p> Dr. Peteet has written a slim, unpretentious volume about moral issues that face most psychiatrists every day. It is a wonderful introduction and a rich book. -- Journal of Clinical Psychology

Here is a remarkably knowing, thoughtful, and carefully reasoned consideration of clinical psychiatric work as it connects with moral matters. Here, too, is a wide-ranging review of an entire psychiatric and psychoanalytic literature: the continuing efforts of so many clinicians to work honorably and sensitively--to do right by their patients and to do what is right. Here, finally, is a clearly written book that will help a generation of us who work with patients to take our moral bearings, yet also look inward at our ethical assumptions and purposes, even as we try to give close, caring regard to the others who came to see us to tell of themselves. -- Robert Coles, M.D., James Agee Professor of Social Ethics, Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities, Harvard University For those interested in this area or for a supplemental, provocative text, this book is recommended. -- E-Streams , December 2004 Dr. Peteet has written a slim, unpretentious volume about moral issues that face most psychiatrists every day. It is a wonderful introduction and a rich book. -- Journal of Clinical Psychology

For those interested in this area or for a supplemental, provocative text, this book is recommended. -- E-Streams , December 2004 Dr. Peteet has written a slim, unpretentious volume about moral issues that face most psychiatrists every day. It is a wonderful introduction and a rich book. -- Journal of Clinical Psychology Here is a remarkably knowing, thoughtful, and carefully reasoned consideration of clinical psychiatric work as it connects with moral matters. Here, too, is a wide-ranging review of an entire psychiatric and psychoanalytic literature: the continuing efforts of so many clinicians to work honorably and sensitively--to do right by their patients and to do what is right. Here, finally, is a clearly written book that will help a generation of us who work with patients to take our moral bearings, yet also look inward at our ethical assumptions and purposes, even as we try to give close, caring regard to the others who came to see us to tell of themselves. -- Robert Coles, M.D., James Agee Professor of Social Ethics, Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities, Harvard University

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John R. Peteet, M.D., is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts.

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