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Moral responsibility, consciousness and psychiatry
Article first published online: 14 NOV 2005
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1614.2005.01720.x
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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
Volume 39, Issue 11-12, pages 1018–1021, November 2005
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How to Cite
McMillan, J. and Gillett, G. (2005), Moral responsibility, consciousness and psychiatry. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 39: 1018–1021. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1614.2005.01720.x
Publication History
- Issue published online: 14 NOV 2005
- Article first published online: 14 NOV 2005
- Received 10 June 2005; accepted 22 June 2005.
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Keywords:
- consciousness;
- ethics;
- moral responsibility;
- psychiatry
This article discusses the connection between consciousness and responsibility. Moral responsibility plays a crucial, but often implicit role in psychiatry in that it is often a therapeutic aim as well as an important evaluative concept. This article explains one of the more influential ‘psychological’ theories of moral responsibility, developed by Harry Frankfurt. In the second part of this article, a modified version of this account is applied to a range of psychiatric phenomena.