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


I.	Editorial
	i.	Thank you
			John Maher MA MD FRCPC Editor-in-Chief Publication Date: June 11, 2015
	ii.	Assisted Death in Canada for Persons with Active Psychiatric Disorders
			John Maher MA MD FRCPC Editor-in-Chief Publication Date: May 4, 2016
	iii.	A Response to "Assisted Death in Canada for Persons with Active Psychiatric Disorders"
			Mona Gupta MD FRCPC PhD Publication Date: June 10, 2016
II.	JEMH News
	i.	JEMH News Update
			Publication Date: June 11, 2015
	ii.	Theme Issues and Call for Papers
			Publication Date: June 11, 2015
III.	Letters to the Editor
		Letter to the Editor
			Michael Robertson Garry Walter Publication Date: April 10, 2015
IV.	Articles
	Peer Reviewed Submissions
	i.	Leadership, Mental Health Ethics, and Biopolitics: The Case of Autism
			Alexandra Perry PhD Publication Date: July 29, 2014

	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 Publication Date: April 10, 2015

	iii.	Angry and Mad: A Critical Examination of Identity Politics, Neurodiversity, and the Mad Pride Movement
			Margaret Rowland Publication Date: October 5, 2015

V.	Frontline Perspectives
	Peer Reviewed Submissions
	i.	Forcible Treatment with Post-exposure Prophylaxis in a Psychotic Patient Exposed to HIV
			Tahir Rahman MD, Sara May McElroy, Patrick Mazi, Dominic Zanaboni Publication Date: March 6, 2015

	ii.	Are Psychiatric Patients Disadvantaged in Assessment of Competence to Consent to Treatment?
			Natalie Wee BSc XiaoYun Chong BEng Publication Date: March 18, 2015

	iii.	Sex, Romance, and Dating in Treatment Recovery: Ethical Reflections and Clinical Deliberations on Challenging Addiction Decision Making
			Izaak L. Williams, CSAC Doctoral Student, Michael J. Taleff PhD MAC CSAC Publication Date: April 10, 2015

	iv.	Sharing Information with Families that Carry the Burden of Care for Relatives with Severe Mental Illness
			R. O’Reilly MB FRCPC J.E. Gray PhD CPsych J. Jung Publication Date: November 20, 2015

	v.	Key Arguments in Unilateral Termination from Addiction Progams: A Discourse on Ethical Issues, Clinical Reasoning, and Moral Judgments
			Izaak L. Williams,CSAC Michael J. Taleff PhD MAC CSAC Publication Date: November 23, 2015

	vi.	Involuntary Sterilization of the Mentally Challenged: A Legal and Ethical Dilemma
			Martha E. Jennings RN FNP-C DBA Publication Date: February 24 2016

	vii.	Ethical Discomforts Linked to Mental Health in Community Organizations
			Jacques Quintin PhD Nadine Larivière OT(C) PhD Joelle Hassoun MD Publication Date: August 3 2016

	Invited Submissions
	i.	ACT Thoughtfully
			John Maher MA MD FRCPC Sarah Garside PhD MD FRCPC Publication Date: May 12, 2015
	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

		1.	The Line that Jumped Out at Me
			Jennifer Radden PhD Publication Date: May 19, 2015

		2.	Imagine this Scenario
			John Trainor MSW Publication Date: May 19, 2015

		3.	Simile, Metaphor, and Reality: Reflections on Bringing Back the Asylum
			Michael Clinton PhD Publication Date: May 19, 2015

		4.	Objections and Merits
			Julian C Hughs MA MB ChB MRCPsych PhD Publication Date: June 9, 2015

		5.	Same Brush, Different Strokes
			Lynne Bowyer PhD Grant Gillett MSc MB ChB DPhil FRACS FRSNZ Claire Amos PhD (c) Publication Date: June 11, 2015
		6.	Asylums and Human Rights
			Judith Klein JD Publication Date: June 11, 2015

VI.	Benchmark

	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?
			Barbara Walker-Renshaw Margot Finley Publication Date: November 20, 2015

	ii.	Decision-Making Capacity to Consent to Medical Assistance in Dying for Persons with Mental Disorders
			Louis C Charland, PhD Trudo Lemmens LicJur, LLM (Bioethics), DCL Kyoko Wada MD, MA (Bioethics), PhD Publication Date: May 6, 2016

	iii.	Medical Assistance in Dying and “Suicide Tourism” to Canada: Bill C-14 from a Comparative Perspective
			Konstantin Tretyakov LLB PhD (Law) Glenn Cohen BA JD Publication Date: July 21, 2016

	iv.	Medical Assistance in Dying and Mental Illness under the New Canadian Law
			Jocelyn Downie MLitt SJD FRSC FCAHS Justine Dembo MD FRCPC Publication Date: November 18, 2016

VII.	Hindsight

	i.	In Memoriam: Carla McKague
			Michael Bay JD Publication Date: November 23, 2015

VIII.	Insight

	i.	Murderer-Rapist Almost Euthanized in Belgium: Is the public outcry warranted?
			Jeffrey Kirby MA MD Publication Date: March 9, 2015

IX.	Book and Media Reviews
	Film Reviews:
	i.	What does it mean to Eat?
			Reviewed By: Alana Cattapan PhD Publication Date: June 25, 2014

	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

	Book Reviews:
	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

	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

	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

X.	Special Theme Issue: Colonizing Forces in Psychiatry
	i.	Introduction
			Nancy Nyquist Potter PhD Guest Editor Publication Date: June 17, 2015

	ii.	Colonization by/in Psychiatry: From Over-Medicalization to Democratization
			Douglas Porter MD Publication Date: June 18, 2015

	iii.	Intergenerational Trauma Isn't Just Another Determinant of Indigenous Peoples' Health
			Juanita Sherwood PhD Publication Date: June 18, 2015

	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

	v.	Transgender Health: Eliminating Inequalities and Strengthening Clinician-Patient Relationships
			Christy A. Rentmeester PhD Ryan K. Sallans MA Publication Date: June 17, 2015

	vi.	Weaning off Colonial Psychiatry in Kenya
			Mohamed Ibrahim RN MSW Marina Morrow PhD Publication Date: June 17, 2015

XI.	Special Theme Issue: Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID)
	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:
	i.	Assisted Death in Canada for Persons with Active Psychiatric Disorders
			John Maher MA MD FRCPC Editor-in-Chief Publication Date: May 4, 2016

	ii.	A Response to "Assisted Death in Canada for Persons with Active Psychiatric Disorders"
			Mona Gupta MD FRCPC PhD Publication Date: June 10, 2016

	iii.	What Troubles me as a Psychiatrist about the Physician Assisted Suicide Debate in Canada
			John Maher MD FRCPC Editor-in-Chief Publication Date: May 25, 2017

	Legislation:
	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?
			Barbara Walker-Renshaw LLB Margot Finley LLB Publication Date: November 20, 2015

	ii.	Medical Assistance in Dying and Mental Illness under the New Canadian Law
			Jocelyn Downie MLitt SJD FRSC FCAHS Justine Dembo MD FRCPC Publication Date: November 18, 2016

	iii.	Does Legalization of Medical Assistance in Dying Affect Rates of Non-assisted Suicide?
			Matthew P. Lowe Jocelyn Downie MLitt SJD FRSC FCAHS Publication Date: May 25, 2017

	iv.	Medical Assistance in Dying for Suffering Arising from Mental Health Disorders: Could augmented safeguards enhance its ethical acceptability?
			Jeffrey Kirby MA MD Publication Date: May 25, 2017

	Suicide Tourism:
	i.	Medical Assistance in Dying and “Suicide Tourism” to Canada: Bill C-14 from a Comparative Perspective
			Konstantin Tretyakov LLB PhD (Law) Glenn Cohen BA JD Publication Date: July 21, 2016

	Capacity:
	i.	Decision-Making Capacity to Consent to Medical Assistance in Dying for Persons with Mental Disorders
			Louis C Charland, PhD Trudo Lemmens LicJur, LLM (Bioethics), DCL Kyoko Wada MD, MA (Bioethics), PhD Publication Date: May 6, 2016

	Commentaries:
	Seven Commentaires in Reponse to: "Decision-Making Capacity to Consent to Medical Assistance in Dying for Persons with Mental Disorders" by Charland, Lemmens, & Wada. Publication Date: May 6 2016

	i.	A Response to Charland and Colleagues: Science Cannot Resolve the Problems of Capacity Assessment
			Mona Gupta MD CM FRCPC PhD Christian Desmarais MD Publication Date: November 18 2016

	ii.	Commentary on Charland et al, "Decision-Making Capacity to Consent to Medical Assistance in Dying for Persons with Mental Disorders"
			Guy Widdershoven PhD Cecilia M.T. Gijsbers van Wijk MD PhD Publication Date: November 18 2016

	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

	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

	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

	vi.	Commentary on “Decision-Making Capacity to Consent to Medical Assistance in Dying for Persons with Mental Disorders”
			Gerben Meynen MD PhD Publication Date: December 2 2016

	vii.	Capacity Assessments as a Safeguard for Psychiatric Patients Requesting Euthanasia
			Scott YH Kim MD PhD Publication Date: December 2 2016

	Reflections:
	i.	Capacity to Consent to MAID
			Mark Lachmann MD MHSc FCFP FRCPC Publication Date: May 25, 2017

	ii.	The Devil is in the Details: Thoughts on Medical Aid in Dying for Persons with Mental Illness
			Michael Bay JD Publication Date: May 25, 2017

	iii.	MAID and Mental Illness: Critical Thoughts, Constructive Thoughts
			Ruth von Fuchs Publication Date: May 25, 2017

JEMH Open Volume

I.

Editorial

II.

JEMH News

III.

Letters to the Editor

IV.

Articles

Peer Reviewed Submissions

V.

Frontline Perspectives

Peer Reviewed Submissions

Invited Submissions

VI.

Benchmark

VII.

Hindsight

VIII.

Insight

IX.

Book and Media Reviews

Film Reviews:

Book Reviews:

X.

Special Theme Issue: Colonizing Forces in Psychiatry

XI.

Special Theme Issue: Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID)

Editorials:

Legislation:

Suicide Tourism:

Capacity:

Commentaries:

Reflections: