JEMH Open Volume
Submissions are welcomed at any time, and if accepted, will be published immediately following the revision process.
The review process will be completed within 1 to 3 months.
Submissions for four sections ("Articles", "Frontline Perspectives", "Benchmark", "Hindsight") will be subject to blind peer review. Other submissions are reviewed by the Editorial Committee.
Table of Contents
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Editorial |
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i. | Thank you | ||||
John Maher MA MD FRCPC |
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ii. | Assisted Death in Canada for Persons with Active Psychiatric Disorders | ||||
John Maher MA MD FRCPC |
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iii. | A Response to "Assisted Death in Canada for Persons with Active Psychiatric Disorders" | ||||
Mona Gupta MD FRCPC PhD |
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JEMH News |
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i. | JEMH News Update | ||||
Publication Date: June 11, 2015 |
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ii. | Theme Issues and Call for Papers | ||||
Publication Date: June 11, 2015 |
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III. |
Letters to the Editor |
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Letter to the Editor | |||||
Michael Robertson |
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IV. |
Articles |
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Peer Reviewed Submissions |
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i. | Leadership, Mental Health Ethics, and Biopolitics: The Case of Autism | ||||
Alexandra Perry PhD | |||||
ii. | Medically Unexplained Symptoms and Mental Models: from failure to fusion and back to illness behaviour | ||||
Xavier F. Jimenez MD MA, Patricia A. Mayer MD MS |
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iii. | Angry and Mad: A Critical Examination of Identity Politics, Neurodiversity, and the Mad Pride Movement | ||||
Margaret Rowland |
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Frontline Perspectives |
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Peer Reviewed Submissions |
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i. | Forcible Treatment with Post-exposure Prophylaxis in a Psychotic Patient Exposed to HIV |
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Tahir Rahman MD, Sara May McElroy, Patrick Mazi, Dominic Zanaboni |
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ii. | Are Psychiatric Patients Disadvantaged in Assessment of Competence to Consent to Treatment? |
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Natalie Wee BSc |
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iii. | Sex, Romance, and Dating in Treatment Recovery: Ethical Reflections and Clinical Deliberations on Challenging Addiction Decision Making |
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Izaak L. Williams, CSAC Doctoral Student, Michael J. Taleff PhD MAC CSAC |
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iv. | Sharing Information with Families that Carry the Burden of Care for Relatives with Severe Mental Illness |
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R. O’Reilly MB FRCPC | |||||
v. | Key Arguments in Unilateral Termination from Addiction Progams: A Discourse on Ethical Issues, Clinical Reasoning, and Moral Judgments |
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Izaak L. Williams,CSAC |
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vi. | Involuntary Sterilization of the Mentally Challenged: A Legal and Ethical Dilemma |
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Martha E. Jennings RN FNP-C DBA |
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vii. | Ethical Discomforts Linked to Mental Health in Community Organizations |
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Jacques Quintin PhD |
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Invited Submissions |
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i. | ACT Thoughtfully | ||||
John Maher MA MD FRCPC |
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ii. | Invited Responses to JAMA Viewpoint | January 20, 2015 “Improving Long-term Psychiatric Care: Bring Back the Asylum” Dominic A. Sisti PhD; Andrea G. Segal MS; Ezekiel J. Emanuel MD PhD JAMA. 2015;313(3):243-244. doi:10.1001/jama.2014.16088. Website link |
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1. | The Line that Jumped Out at Me |
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Jennifer Radden PhD Publication Date: May 19, 2015 |
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2. | Imagine this Scenario | ||||
John Trainor MSW Publication Date: May 19, 2015 |
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3. | Simile, Metaphor, and Reality: Reflections on Bringing Back the Asylum | ||||
Michael Clinton PhD Publication Date: May 19, 2015 |
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4. | Objections and Merits | ||||
Julian C Hughs MA MB ChB MRCPsych PhD Publication Date: June 9, 2015 |
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5. | Same Brush, Different Strokes | ||||
Lynne Bowyer PhD |
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6. | Asylums and Human Rights | ||||
Judith Klein JD |
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Benchmark |
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i. | Carter v. Canada (Attorney General): Will the Supreme Court of Canada’s Decision on Physician-assisted Death Apply to Persons Suffering from Severe Mental Illness? |
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Barbara Walker-Renshaw |
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ii. | Decision-Making Capacity to Consent to Medical Assistance in Dying for Persons with Mental Disorders |
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Louis C Charland, PhD |
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iii. | Medical Assistance in Dying and “Suicide Tourism” to Canada: Bill C-14 from a Comparative Perspective |
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Konstantin Tretyakov LLB PhD (Law) |
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iv. | Medical Assistance in Dying and Mental Illness under the New Canadian Law |
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Jocelyn Downie MLitt SJD FRSC FCAHS Justine Dembo MD FRCPC Publication Date: November 18, 2016 |
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Hindsight |
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i. | In Memoriam: Carla McKague |
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Michael Bay JD |
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VIII. |
Insight |
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i. | Murderer-Rapist Almost Euthanized in Belgium: Is the public outcry warranted? |
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Jeffrey Kirby MA MD |
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Book and Media Reviews |
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Film Reviews: |
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i. | What does it mean to Eat? | ||||
Reviewed By: Alana Cattapan PhD Publication Date: June 25, 2014 |
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ii. | Nebraska: Oscar® Winning Representations of Aging and Older People | ||||
Reviewed By: Mariah R. Malone BA, Brad A. Meisner PhD Publication Date: April 2, 2015 |
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Book Reviews: |
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i. | Everyday Ethics: Voices from the Front Line of Community Psychiatry | ||||
Paul Brodwin 2013 University of California Press Reviewed By: Alison Freeland MD FRCPC Publication Date: June 25, 2014 |
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ii. | Ethics and Mental Health: The Patient, Profession and Community | ||||
Michael Robertson & Garry Walter CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2013 Reviewed by: Douglas W. Heinrichs MD Publication Date: April 10, 2015 |
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iii. | Is Evidence Based Psychiatry Ethical? | ||||
Mona Gupta Oxford University Press, 2014 Reviewed by: Grant Gillett MSc MB ChB DPhil FRACS FRSNZ Publication Date: November 30, 2015 |
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Special Theme Issue: Colonizing Forces in Psychiatry |
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i. | Introduction |
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Nancy Nyquist Potter PhD Guest Editor Publication Date: June 17, 2015 |
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ii. | Colonization by/in Psychiatry: From Over-Medicalization to Democratization |
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Douglas Porter MD Publication Date: June 18, 2015 |
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iii. | Intergenerational Trauma Isn't Just Another Determinant of Indigenous Peoples' Health |
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Juanita Sherwood PhD Publication Date: June 18, 2015 |
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iv. | Reflections on Things We Don't Want to Think About: Intersections of Colonialism, Transgenerational Trauma, and Oppression Within Psychiatry | ||||
Nancy Nyquist Potter PhD Publication Date: June 18, 2015 |
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v. | Transgender Health: Eliminating Inequalities and Strengthening Clinician-Patient Relationships | ||||
Christy A. Rentmeester PhD Ryan K. Sallans MA Publication Date: June 17, 2015 |
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vi. | Weaning off Colonial Psychiatry in Kenya | ||||
Mohamed Ibrahim RN MSW Marina Morrow PhD Publication Date: June 17, 2015 |
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Special Theme Issue: Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) |
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Editor's note: Given the importance of this topic, the JEMH is grouping all content related to MAID in our current Open Volume together as a special theme issue for ease of access and review. | |||||
Editorials: |
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i. | Assisted Death in Canada for Persons with Active Psychiatric Disorders | ||||
John Maher MA MD FRCPC Editor-in-Chief Publication Date: May 4, 2016 |
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ii. | A Response to "Assisted Death in Canada for Persons with Active Psychiatric Disorders" | ||||
Mona Gupta MD FRCPC PhD |
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iii. | What Troubles me as a Psychiatrist about the Physician Assisted Suicide Debate in Canada | ||||
John Maher MD FRCPC Editor-in-Chief |
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Legislation: |
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i. | Carter v. Canada (Attorney General): Will the Supreme Court of Canada’s Decision on Physician-assisted Death Apply to Persons Suffering from Severe Mental Illness? |
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Barbara Walker-Renshaw LLB Margot Finley LLB Publication Date: November 20, 2015 |
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ii. | Medical Assistance in Dying and Mental Illness under the New Canadian Law |
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Jocelyn Downie MLitt SJD FRSC FCAHS Justine Dembo MD FRCPC Publication Date: November 18, 2016 |
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iii. | Does Legalization of Medical Assistance in Dying Affect Rates of Non-assisted Suicide? |
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Matthew P. Lowe Jocelyn Downie MLitt SJD FRSC FCAHS Publication Date: May 25, 2017 |
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iv. | Medical Assistance in Dying for Suffering Arising from Mental Health Disorders: Could augmented safeguards enhance its ethical acceptability? |
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Jeffrey Kirby MA MD Publication Date: May 25, 2017 |
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Suicide Tourism: |
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i. | Medical Assistance in Dying and “Suicide Tourism” to Canada: Bill C-14 from a Comparative Perspective |
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Konstantin Tretyakov LLB PhD (Law) |
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Capacity: |
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i. | Decision-Making Capacity to Consent to Medical Assistance in Dying for Persons with Mental Disorders |
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Louis C Charland, PhD |
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Commentaries: |
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Seven Commentaires in Reponse to: "Decision-Making Capacity to Consent to Medical Assistance in Dying for Persons with Mental Disorders" by Charland, Lemmens, & Wada. |
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i. | A Response to Charland and Colleagues: Science Cannot Resolve the Problems of Capacity Assessment |
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Mona Gupta MD CM FRCPC PhD |
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ii. | Commentary on Charland et al, "Decision-Making Capacity to Consent to Medical Assistance in Dying for Persons with Mental Disorders" |
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Guy Widdershoven PhD |
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iii. | Medical Assistance in Dying as an Adaptive Preference in Individuals with Mental Illness | ||||
Ilang M Guiroy Dominic Sisti PhD Publication Date: November 18 2016 |
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iv. | Commentary on “Decision-Making Capacity to Consent to Medical Assistance in Dying for Persons with Mental Disorders” | ||||
Gareth Owen BSc PhD MBBS MCRPsych Publication Date: November 18 2016 |
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v. | Commentary on "Decision-Making Capacity to Consent to Medical Assistance in Dying for Persons with Mental Disorders" | ||||
Michael Goodstadt PhD C.Psych Publication Date: November 29 2016 |
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vi. | Commentary on “Decision-Making Capacity to Consent to Medical Assistance in Dying for Persons with Mental Disorders” |
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Gerben Meynen MD PhD Publication Date: December 2 2016 |
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vii. | Capacity Assessments as a Safeguard for Psychiatric Patients Requesting Euthanasia | ||||
Scott YH Kim MD PhD Publication Date: December 2 2016 |
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Reflections: |
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i. | Capacity to Consent to MAID |
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Mark Lachmann MD MHSc FCFP FRCPC |
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ii. | The Devil is in the Details: Thoughts on Medical Aid in Dying for Persons with Mental Illness |
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Michael Bay JD |
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iii. | MAID and Mental Illness: Critical Thoughts, Constructive Thoughts |
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Ruth von Fuchs |
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