Psychiatria pre prax 5/2008
ETHICS DIFFICULTIES IN PSYCHOTHERAPY
Despite the growing number of ethical issues and dilemmas ensuing from the rapid development of medicine, medical practice often seems to prefer technical aspects of care to those of ethics. Yet, the physician‘s ethical attitude is normally highly appreciated by the patient. What is and what is not ethical in psychotherapy? This is one of the questions that our paper raises from the perspective of four key ethical principles – beneficience, non-maleficience, autonomy and justice.
Keywords: ethics, ethics principles, psychotherapy
