1. Decision-making in mental health practice -- 2. Ethical responsibility in mental health practice -- 3. Ethical and value issues encountered in liaison psychiatry -- 4. Legal and ethical aspects of decision-making by and for aged persons in the context of psychiatric care -- 5. Informed consent: the problem -- 6. Some general problems related to informed consent and the psychiatric treatment of children -- 7. Ethics and values in the evaluation and treatment of children: a clinician's viewpoint -- 8. Ethics, values and sex therapy -- 9. Roles, contacts and covenants: an analysis of religious components in psychotherapy -- 10. My brother's keeper? mental health policy and the new psychiatry