[Some problems of contemporary psychiatry analyzed from a bioethical perspective].

The use of bioethic concepts in the diagnosis and clinical psychiatry has been rare. Contrary to what happens with other specialities, it has been no easy for the psychiatrists to incorporate some criteria from the bioethics, given the difficulties of this discipline to meet the criteria of the contemporary biomedical model. It is possible that because of the particularities of the psychiatric practice, the bioethicists have not pay attention to the issues raised by the psychiatry and devoted almost exclusively to the burning problems of the other medical specialities. In this paper, some reflections on this problem are presented.