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Where people permit professionals to exercise influence upon them, it is often assumed that no serious ethical dilemmas exist. The traditional assumption that ethical dilemmas involve only interventions capable of causing physical harm needs to be challenged. All forms of psychosocial ‘treatment’ involve the exercise of some form of influence over people who are vulnerable, if only by virtue of their problems. This psychological vulnerability suggests that the distinction between ‘treatments’ with physical outcomes, and all others should be abandoned.
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Barker, P., Baldwin, S. (1991). Change not adjustment: the ethics of psychotherapy. In: Barker, P.J., Baldwin, S. (eds) Ethical Issues in Mental Health. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3270-9_10
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