Palliative psychiatry can facilitate compassionate resolution of ethical conflicts in end-of-life care decision making with persons with substance use disorders.  

This commentary on a case considers the ethical feasibility of palliative psychiatry in the care of patients with severe and enduring anorexia nervosa.

This article examines conceptual limitations of extant accounts of palliative psychiatry, with a focus on obligations to distinguish among and clearly formulate goals of care. 

Uncertainty about which psychiatric interventions are palliative stems from psychiatry’s prioritization of symptom management regardless of diagnosis. 

Futility can function as a moral counterweight to a duty to treat, helping clinicians  find balance between over- and undertreatment. 

This issue of the AMA Journal of Ethics explores palliative psychiatry as one response to pharmacological futility that reinvigorates core philosophy of medicine investigations into what health care is for.

Treatment-resistant schizophrenia can create a high disease burden for some patients, making it hard to get good outcomes.

This commentary on a case considers the course of a palliative approach to care of a patient with a serious and persistent mental illness.

Some individuals with severe and enduring anorexia nervosa experience dramatically degraded quality of life in the face of refractory illness and compulsory treatment. 

Costs partly determine organizational robotics, but questions remain about whether and to what extent they should influence care decisions.