The Virtuous Psychiatrist: Character Ethics in Psychiatric Practice

Jennifer Radden, John Sadler, "The Virtuous Psychiatrist: Character Ethics in Psychiatric Practice"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0195389379 | 256 pages | PDF | 1,8 MB
The context for this interdisciplinary work by a philosopher and a
clinician is the psychiatric care provided to those with severe mental
disorders. Such a setting makes distinctive moral demands on the very
character of the practitioner, it is shown, calling for special virtues
and greater virtue than many other practice settings. In a practice so
attentive to the patient's self identity, the authors promote a
heightened awareness of cultural and particularly gender issues. By
elucidating the nature of the moral psychology and character of the good
psychiatrist, this work provides a sustained application of virtue
theory to clinical practice.

With its roots in Aristotelian writing, The Virtuous Psychiatrist
presents virtue traits as habits, able to be cultivated and enhanced
through training. The book describes these traits, and how they can be
habituated in clinical training. A turn towards virtue theory within
philosophy during the last several decades has resulted in important
research on professional ethics. By approaching the ethics of
psychiatric professionals in these virtue terms, Radden and Sadler's
work provides an original application of this theorizing to practice. Of
interest to both theorists and practitioners, the book explores the
tension between the model of enduring character implicit in virtue
theory and the segmented personae of role-specific moral responses.
Clinical examples are provided, based upon dramaturgical vignettes
(caseplays) which illustrate both the interactions of the case
participants as well as the inner monologue of the clinician
protagonist.

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