Abstract

Psychiatry is the branch of medicine focusing on the mental disorders. Psychiatry deals with the etiology, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation or prevention of mental, emotional and behavioral disorders. Psychiatrists are medical doctors who graduate from medical school and take residency training in psychiatry. Ethical problems can arise in many areas of psychiatry, for example, involuntary treatment of psychiatric patients, confidentiality, informing patients about their diagnosis, or psychiatric studies. Besides these, ethical issues take place in forensic psychiatric cases and treatment interventions with pharmacotherapies or psychotherapies.