放弃治疗与生命质量：对生命质量和“放弁”的求证

卫生资源严重短缺和“善待生命”传统的冲突将在卫生经济伦理学的建构中得到缓解,后现代主义哲学与伦理学,尤其是生命价值理论对“放弃治疗”予以理论支撑,而它源于医学科学技术发展、经济伦理背境和西方各种哲学和伦理学反传统的思潮,并指导“放弃治疗”的科学标准的建立和程序法则。     

肝癌肝移植与放弃治疗的伦理选择

探讨我国肝癌肝移植现状及其伦理要求.在我国卫生资源短缺且分配不公的形式下,肝移植手术大幅度增长的背后隐藏的是尖锐的伦理冲突.后现代主义哲学与伦理学,尤其是生命价值理论对放弃治疗予以理论支撑.在肝癌肝移植与放弃治疗的伦理冲突中,做出公平审慎的选择.     

儿科重症监护室中放弃治疗的相关问题研究

随着现代伦理学、生命质量和生命价值理论的发展,对于儿科重症监护室中部分病情危重且不可避免地将出现影响其远期生存质量的后遗症的患儿来说,选择放弃治疗可能更符合伦理学及患儿的最佳利益。对儿科重症监护室中部分患儿放弃治疗的实施过程、必备条件、常见原因、实施对象、相关伦理学及法律问题进行了探讨,以求为临床诊疗提供理论参考。     

新生儿重症监护室（NICU）中放弃治疗的决策

随着现代主义哲学与伦理学,尤其是生命价值理论对"放弃治疗"的支持,以及相关科学标准和程序法则的建立,对于新生儿重症监护室中的一部分病情危重且又预后不良的新生儿来说,理应作出放弃治疗的决策。但在实施的过程中,存在许多困难,医生有客观告知的义务,但最后的决策权仍在患儿父母。从NICU中放弃治疗的对象、依据、医院面临的困境、决策的实施以及解决实施过程中矛盾冲突的对策方面加以讨论。     

新生儿重症监护室(NICU)中放弃治疗的决策

随着现代主义哲学与伦理学,尤其是生命价值理论对"放弃治疗"的支持,以及相关科学标准和程序法则的建立,对于新生儿重症监护室中的一部分病情危重且又预后不良的新生儿来说,理应作出放弃治疗的决策.但在实施的过程中,存在许多困难,医生有客观告知的义务,但最后的决策权仍在患儿父母.从NICU中放弃治疗的对象、依据、医院面临的困境、决策的实施以及解决实施过程中矛盾冲突的对策方面加以讨论.     

生命伦理与制度伦理冲突的终结--"非典"事件的伦理学审读

SARS事件可以为生命伦理与制度伦理历史冲突的终结提供佐证;公民享有的健康权必须平等。应大力矫正医疗与预防的关系,必须重视发展公共卫生事业;应重新思考中国的卫生事业改革,中国医疗改革不能实行市场化,卫生经济伦理学的研究证明,中国的卫生制度改革重点在农村,“适者生存”的原则不适用于卫生事业。创构灾疫伦理学是生命伦理学的一项使命。     

放弃治疗面面观

放弃治疗有广义和狭义两种概念,根据临床实践分为主动放弃和被动放弃、单方放弃和双方放弃、明示放弃和暗示放弃、完全放弃和部分放弃。有许多的放弃治疗从患者本人、亲属、医务人员和医疗付费等方面考虑都有积极的意义。在医学伦理学中放弃治疗一直是一个有争议的问题,其道德意义在于体现了唯物主义观点,对人生命的尊重和社会公益原则。对其立法问题有待解决。     

关于召开第二届全国生命伦理学学术会议

为了在第一届全国生命伦理学学术会议的基础上,进一步对生命科学和生物技术伦理、涉及人和动物的生物医学研究伦理、公共卫生和卫生政策伦理以及生命伦理学的哲学和文化层面等研究成果进行检阅,探讨在这些领域以及临床工作中出现的伦理问题。以推动我国生命伦理学学术研究的发展及其在实践中的应用,     

ICU与放弃治疗

1　放弃治疗的现状所谓放弃治疗即对于以目前的医学手段尚无法治愈的病人 ,不再人为地延长其生命而终止治疗措施。在决定放弃治疗时必须回答“ｗｈｙ(为什么要放弃治疗 )” ,“ｈｏｗ(如何放弃治疗 )” ,“ｗｈａｔ(放弃什么样的治疗 )” ,“ｗｈｅｎ(何时放弃治疗 )”等问题[1] 。目前 ,在我国做出放弃治疗决定的只有患方 (在ＩＣＵ内往往只是病人家属 ) ,有时我们也会以某种委婉的方式提出放弃治疗的忠告和暗示 ;对于放弃什么样的治疗则涉及到放弃哪一类病人的治疗 ,被放弃治疗的对象究竟该不该放弃 ,这不仅仅是一个医学问题 ,也是一个社…     

关于白血病患儿放弃治疗的思考

对于那些不可治愈、无治疗价值的晚期白血病患儿,虽然借助现代医疗技术可以使他们的生命得以延长,但生命质量却得不到提高,选择放弃治疗可能更符合伦理学和患儿及家庭的最佳利益。对白血病患儿放弃治疗的原因进行了分析,并对这一社会问题进行了伦理、法律和医学等方面的思考。     

Together – apart: in touch in a time of separation

This paper explores the experience of working as a Jungian analyst through the various phases of the global COVID-19 pandemic, examining the importance of the physical containing space alongside the analyst’s internal mind and how technology can both help and hinder understanding. A number of clinical vignettes illustrate the challenge of communicating over a distance, paying particular attention to the way countertransference phenomena can become re-attuned. Reference is made to mythology and symbols of hope, and consideration given to the meaning and purpose of the pandemic.     

The Possibility of Meaning in Human Evolution

Science undermines the certitude of non-naturalistic answers to the question of whether human life has meaning. I explore whether evolution can provide a naturalistic basis for existential meaning. Using the work of philosopher Daniel Dennett and scientist Ursula Goodenough, I argue that evolution is the locus of the possibility of meaning because it has produced intentionality, the matrix of consciousness. I conclude that the question of the meaning of human life is an existentialist one: existential meaning is a product of the individual and collective tasks human beings undertake.     

Phenotypic plasticity and archetype: a response to common objections to the biological theory of archetype and instinct

Since Jung’s death in 1961, scholars have attempted to integrate growing biological science data into Jungian concepts such as the collective unconscious, instincts and the archetypes. This enterprise has been challenging due to persistent false dichotomies of gene and environment occasionally arising. Recent works by Roesler (2022a, 2022b) for example, have raised objections to the biological theory of archetypes, but the objections are plagued by such dichotomies. The concept of phenotypic plasticity, however, helps to both avoid this problem as well as bridge the gap between competing theories into a more integrated model with solid biological foundations.     

When is it time to stop? When good enough becomes bad enough

This article draws on Winnicott’s concept of the good enough mother to discuss how to know whether a therapeutic situation is good enough to continue or bad enough to end. This dilemma is explored in terms of clinical syndromes, such as anorexia and pathological gambling, but focuses mainly on analyst-initiated endings, which are termed the ‘Casablanca dilemma’, based on an amplification of the ending of the film Casablanca. The author goes on to discuss such one-sided endings, drawing on interviews with 40 analysts and therapists about their clinical experience. A typology of bad enough endings is presented. The psychological differences between a good enough analysis as opposed to a bad enough one are explored through the ideas of Winnicott and Neumann.     

Kann Es Ein Argument Für Den Skeptizismus Geben? Das Epistemische Problem Der Irrtumsmöglichkeit

Summary  Is there any argument for scepticism? The epistemic problem of the possibility of error. Arguments for scepticism rest on the assumption that knowledge claims are fallible. For this reason the concept of knowledge appears to be questionable. Since it is necessary to distinguish doubts from possible doubts, the arguments for scepticism appear to be unconvincing. If we take it into account that we know something that is immune to doubt, we should draw the conclusion that, contrary to scepticism, knowledge claims have to be compatible with being fallible. Thus any knowledge claim is capable of being doubted.     

The transcendent function in Spitteler’s Prometheus and Epimetheus

In August 2020, John Beebe and Steve Myers met via Zoom to discuss their differing interpretations of psychological typology and the different sources within Jung’s writings that influenced their books: Integrity in Depth: Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type (Beebe), and Myers-Briggs Typology vs Jungian Individuation (Myers). The discussion centred on Spitteler’s epic poem Prometheus und Epimetheus, which forms the basis of chapter V of Psychological Types. This is both the largest chapter and one of two chapters that Jung highlighted in the Argentine foreword as containing the essence of the book. Jung’s book is primarily about the transformation of personality rather than the categorization of people. Although it contains a critical psychology that deconstructs the nature of consciousness, that is only one half of the book and a stepping-stone to the other half, which is the reconciliation of opposites with particular emphasis on the relation of consciousness and the unconscious. Jung assumed that readers were already familiar with Prometheus und Epimetheus, an understanding of which sheds light on the nature of the transformation that Jung described – the development of a new attitude towards attitude itself.     

Chapter 6: Biblical Foundations for a Practical Theology of Aging

SUMMARY

This article reviews Biblical sources pertaining to the elderly, particularly the frail elderly. Founded on these sources, implications for elderly with Alzheimer's Disease and other forms of dementia are addressed through a personal perspective informed by writings of Christian mystics.     

Seeing in the Dark: A View into Dissociation and Healing

In this paper, I will explore the role of art-making, the experience of trauma and dissociation, and the process of working with self-states from an analytic and creative frame. Relevant literature on dissociation, trauma, and the use of art will be discussed. A case involving my work with an adolescent girl who had experienced sexual abuse from a family member will be shared, with an emphasis on the meaningful role images played during the therapeutic process. Both Jungian and psychoanalytic models of conceptualizing and working with dissociation are included, following Donald Kalsched’s (2013) recommendation for a “binocular stance” to treatment, including both a focus on the inner, intrapsychic world and the interpersonal, relational realm, and how art images both illuminated and expressed these realms. Within the therapeutic process, art images allowed the therapist a view into the client’s unconscious process, and created a meeting ground for dissociative barriers to be gradually seen, felt and known, by both therapist and client. The experience of dissociation, in images and in session, provided a reference point for myself and my client, Taylor, to develop a shared understanding and a framework for growth.