Discussions of the emerging importance of ethical issues in medicine, of the methods for ethical analysis, and of how to organize mental-health ethics rounds; followed by illustrative cases, discussion, and questions for the main types of ethical problems related to informed consent, competency, involuntary treatment, confidentiality, truth-telling, the "difficult patient," relations of parents and children, religious commitments, allocation of resources, research, and criminal justice. Relevant to psychiatry, psychology, and aspects of practice in other fields. (EJH)