Researchers and clinicians face ethical and policy-based challenges in disclosing, preventing and treating psychosis. Which diagnostic labels should be considered to motivate more effective public and professional dialogue about psychosis risk?

Although the stigma of the psychosis risk label can cause harm, the label can also confer benefit and provides an explanatory framework for symptoms.

Physicians with a mental illness can have good, empathic relationships with their patients, even if patients know of their condition.

Neglected examples of iatrogenic harm involve persons with severe mental illness who seek inpatient care.

Dr Carmen Black joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Amanda Calhoun: “How Biased and Carceral Responses to Persons With Mental Illness in Acute Medical Care Settings Constitute Iatrogenic Harms.”

Public health surveillance for infectious disease provides a model for a mandatory reporting policy for human trafficking, which poses risks for survivors.

Overriding a proxy decision maker’s refusal of medication for a psychotic patient is justified when the patient poses a danger to himself or others.

This commentary on a case considers moral reasons to adopt a palliative approach to the care of some psychiatric patients.

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

The pace at which neurotechnological developments are being translated into clinical applications calls for a preparatory neuroethical model that can plot the benefits, burdens, and risks of neurosurgery as a step toward minimizing risks and maximizing benefits.