JEMH Open Volume 9, 2014-2016

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

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John Maher MA MD FRCPC

Editor-in-Chief

Publication Date: June 11, 2015

ii.

Assisted Death in Canada for Persons with Active Psychiatric Disorders

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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"

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Mona Gupta MD FRCPC PhD

Publication Date: June 10, 2016

II.

JEMH News

i.

JEMH News Update

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Publication Date: June 11, 2015

ii.

Theme Issues and Call for Papers

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Publication Date: June 11, 2015

III.

Letters to the Editor

Letter to the Editor

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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

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Alexandra Perry PhD

Publication Date: July 29, 2014

ii.

Medically Unexplained Symptoms and Mental Models: from failure to fusion and back to illness behaviour

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Martha E. Jennings RN FNP-C DBA

Publication Date: February 24 2016

vii.

Ethical Discomforts Linked to Mental Health in Community Organizations

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Jacques Quintin PhD

Nadine Larivière OT(C) PhD

Joelle Hassoun MD

Publication Date: August 3 2016

Invited Submissions

i.

ACT Thoughtfully

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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

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1.

The Line that Jumped Out at Me

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Jennifer Radden PhD

Publication Date: May 19, 2015

2.

Imagine this Scenario

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John Trainor MSW

Publication Date: May 19, 2015

3.

Simile, Metaphor, and Reality: Reflections on Bringing Back the Asylum

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Michael Clinton PhD

Publication Date: May 19, 2015

4.

Objections and Merits

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Julian C Hughs MA MB ChB MRCPsych PhD

Publication Date: June 9, 2015

5.

Same Brush, Different Strokes

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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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

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Jocelyn Downie MLitt SJD FRSC FCAHS

Justine Dembo MD FRCPC

Publication Date: November 18, 2016

VII.

Hindsight

i.

In Memoriam: Carla McKague

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Michael Bay JD

Publication Date: November 23, 2015

VIII.

Insight

i.

Murderer-Rapist Almost Euthanized in Belgium: Is the public outcry warranted?

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Jeffrey Kirby MA MD

Publication Date: March 9, 2015

IX.

Book and Media Reviews

Film Reviews:

i.

What does it mean to Eat?

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Reviewed By: Alana Cattapan PhD

Publication Date: June 25, 2014

ii.

Nebraska: Oscar® Winning Representations of Aging and Older People

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Reviewed By: Mariah R. Malone BA, Brad A. Meisner PhD

Publication Date: April 2, 2015

iii.

The Role of Film in Public Perception of Bipolar Disorder: Perpetuating Stigma in Silver Linings Playbook

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Reviewed by:Peter K. Ilves MSW RSW, Laura S. Ilves, Cynthia V. Calkin MD FRCPC

Publication Date: May 5, 201

Book Reviews:

i.

Everyday Ethics: Voices from the Front Line of Community Psychiatry

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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

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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?

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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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