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Psychiatry as a vocation: Moral injury, COVID-19, and the phenomenology of clinical practice.
Broome, Matthew R; Rodrigues, Jamila; Ritunnano, Rosa; Humpston, Clara.
Afiliação
  • Broome MR; Institute for Mental Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
  • Rodrigues J; Embodied Cognitive Sciences Lab, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna, Japan.
  • Ritunnano R; Institute for Mental Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
  • Humpston C; Department of Psychology, University of York, UK.
Clin Ethics ; 19(2): 157-170, 2024 Jun.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38784822
ABSTRACT
In this article, we focus on a particular kind of emotional impact of the pandemic, namely the phenomenology of the experience of moral injury in healthcare professionals. Drawing on Weber's reflections in his lecture Politics as a Vocation and data from the Experiences of Social Distancing during the COVID-19 Pandemic Survey, we analyse responses from healthcare professionals which show the experiences of burnout, sense of frustration and impotence, and how these affect clinicians' emotional state. We argue that this may relate to the ethical conflicts they experience when they are forced to make clinical decisions where there are no optimal outcomes, and how in turn that impacts on their own emotional state. We then further examine the notion of 'burnout' and the phenomenology of 'moral injury'. Our argument is that these experiences of moral injury across a range of clinicians during the pandemic may be more prevalent and long-standing in psychiatry and mental health than in other areas of healthcare, where ethically difficult decisions and resource constraints are common outside times of crisis. Hence, in these clinical arenas, moral injury and the phenomenology of emotional changes may be independent of the pandemic. The insights gained during the pandemic may provide wider insights into the challenges of developing services and training the workforce to provide appropriate mental health care.
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