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Damit Ihr indess erkennt, woher dieser ganze Irrthum gekommen ist, und weshalb man die Lust anklagt und den Schmerz lobet, so will ich Euch Alles eröffnen und auseinander setzen, was jener Begründer der Wahrheit und gleichsam Baumeister des glücklichen Lebens selbst darüber gesagt hat. Niemand, sagt er, verschmähe, oder hasse, oder fliehe die Lust als solche, sondern weil grosse Schmerzen ihr folgen, wenn man nicht mit Vernunft ihr nachzugehen verstehe. wenn man nicht mit Vernunft ihr nachzugehen verstehe.

04. Feb. 2021

SALUS members awarded the DGPPN Award for Philosophy and Ethics in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

Matthé Scholten was awarded the SALUS member awarded the DGPPN Award for Philosophy and Ethics in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy for his article "Equality in the informed consent process: Competence to consent, substitute decision-making, and discrimination of persons with mental disorders," co-authored by Jakov Gather and Jochen Vollmann. The article is available open access: https://doi.org/10.1093/jmp/jhaa030

07. Feb. 2020

Newspaper article on the new Dutch Law on Compulsory Mental Healthcare

Today, Matthé's opinion piece on the new Dutch Law on Compulsory Mental Healthcare appeared in the Dutch national newspaper NRC Handelsblad! See the tab "publications" for more information.

03. Jan. 2020

Ethics approval for two studies on self-binding directives

We received ethics approval for two studies on self-binding directives (SBDs), one interview study on the experiences with SBDs in The Netherlands and one German focus group study on the ethical opportunities and risks of SBDs. Stay tuned for the results!

26. Nov. 2019

The German psychiatry conference

This week, Jakov, Matthé, Astrid and Simone are at the German Association for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics (DGPPN) Annual Conference. We will give presentations on psychiatric advance directives, self-binding directives, staff attitudes to coercion, risk assessment in psychiatry, involuntary treatment in forensic psychiatry and more!

18. Nov. 2019

BMBF Status Seminar

Today, we presented our project at the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and got very valuable feedback from the audience.

17. Nov. 2019

Our homepage is now online!

On this homepage, we will inform you about our research results, events, publications and recommendations for clinical practice.