The Oxford Handbook of Psychiatric Ethics

When I joined the staff of the Institute of Psychiatry some 35 years ago, there were no philosophers around. For some members of the institute, I was the nearest thing they had to a philosopher, to the extent of being someone from a non-medical background who thought about what they thought about what they were doing. About 15 years or so later, I started noticing an increasing number of academic philosophers taking an interest. There are various explanations for this. One came from a very, very eminent, nay be-knighted, psychiatry professor. I mentioned this growth of philosophical interest to him,...