Mirjam Faissner
Biographic Data
| ID | 326232 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mirjam Faissner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mirjam |
| FAMILY NAME | Faissner |
| SIGNATURE | FAISSNER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9635-7850 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Discriminatory Practices in the German Mental Healthcare System
Discriminatory practices within mental healthcare are a major barrier to the equitable provision of care to all mental healthcare service users. Understanding mechanisms of discrimination is a prerequisite for developing suitable measures to address them. Intersectionality, a framework rooted in Black feminism, has proven to be a powerful tool for understanding the specific forms and experiences of discrimination within interconnected systems of …
Establishing a peer advisory board in a mental health ethics research group – challenges, benefits, facilitators and lessons learned
While participatory methods are regarded as beneficial in many areas of psychiatric research, they are still rarely considered in the field of mental health ethics. Yet, there are several epistemic and ethical reasons why participatory research is particularly important in this field, such as the high relevance of experiential knowledge for ethical analyses. In this article, we report our experiences with establishing a peer advisory board for an…
Epistemic oppression and the concept of coercion in psychiatry
Coercion is still highly prevalent in contemporary psychiatry. Qualitative research indicates, however, that patients and psychiatric staff have different understandings of what they mean by ‘coercion’. Psychiatric staff primarily employ the concept as referring to instances of formal coercion regulated by law, such as involuntary hospital admission or treatment. Patients, on the other hand, use a broader concept, which also understands many inst…
Detecting your depression with your smartphone? – An ethical analysis of epistemic injustice in passive self-tracking apps
Smartphone apps might offer a low-threshold approach to the detection of mental health conditions, such as depression. Based on the gathering of ‘passive data,’ some apps generate a user’s ‘digital phenotype,’ compare it to those of users with clinically confirmed depression and issue a warning if a depressive episode is likely. These apps can, thus, serve as epistemic tools for affected users. From an ethical perspective, it is crucial to consid…
The ethics of coercion in mental healthcare
In mental health ethics, it is generally assumed that coercive measures are sometimes justified when persons with mental illness endanger themselves or others. Coercive measures are regarded as ethically justified only when certain criteria are fulfilled: for example, the intervention must be proportional in relation to the potential harm. In this paper, we demonstrate shortcomings of this established ethical framework in cases where people with …
A Feminist Bioethics Conference in Qatar? Critical Viewpoints and an Impulse for Further Discussion
In October 2022, the International Association of Bioethics announced that the 17th World Congress of Bioethics (WCB) 2024 would be held in Doha, Qatar. The International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB) traditionally holds its World Congress jointly with the WCB. As part of the ongoing debate about the ethics of bioethics conferencing, the FAB provided a detailed statement discussing concerns about choosing Qatar as the site for…
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Detecting your depression with your smartphone? – An ethical analysis of epistemic injustice in passive self-tracking apps
Smartphone apps might offer a low-threshold approach to the detection of mental health conditions, such as depression. Based on the gathering of ‘passive data,’ some apps generate a user’s ‘digital phenotype,’ compare it to those of users with clinically confirmed depression and issue a warning if a depressive episode is likely. These apps can, thus, serve as epistemic tools for affected users. From an ethical perspective, it is crucial to consid…
The ethics of coercion in mental healthcare
In mental health ethics, it is generally assumed that coercive measures are sometimes justified when persons with mental illness endanger themselves or others. Coercive measures are regarded as ethically justified only when certain criteria are fulfilled: for example, the intervention must be proportional in relation to the potential harm. In this paper, we demonstrate shortcomings of this established ethical framework in cases where people with …
A Feminist Bioethics Conference in Qatar? Critical Viewpoints and an Impulse for Further Discussion
In October 2022, the International Association of Bioethics announced that the 17th World Congress of Bioethics (WCB) 2024 would be held in Doha, Qatar. The International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB) traditionally holds its World Congress jointly with the WCB. As part of the ongoing debate about the ethics of bioethics conferencing, the FAB provided a detailed statement discussing concerns about choosing Qatar as the site for…
Discriminatory Practices in the German Mental Healthcare System
Discriminatory practices within mental healthcare are a major barrier to the equitable provision of care to all mental healthcare service users. Understanding mechanisms of discrimination is a prerequisite for developing suitable measures to address them. Intersectionality, a framework rooted in Black feminism, has proven to be a powerful tool for understanding the specific forms and experiences of discrimination within interconnected systems of …
Establishing a peer advisory board in a mental health ethics research group – challenges, benefits, facilitators and lessons learned
While participatory methods are regarded as beneficial in many areas of psychiatric research, they are still rarely considered in the field of mental health ethics. Yet, there are several epistemic and ethical reasons why participatory research is particularly important in this field, such as the high relevance of experiential knowledge for ethical analyses. In this article, we report our experiences with establishing a peer advisory board for an…
Epistemic oppression and the concept of coercion in psychiatry
Coercion is still highly prevalent in contemporary psychiatry. Qualitative research indicates, however, that patients and psychiatric staff have different understandings of what they mean by ‘coercion’. Psychiatric staff primarily employ the concept as referring to instances of formal coercion regulated by law, such as involuntary hospital admission or treatment. Patients, on the other hand, use a broader concept, which also understands many inst…
Political science (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Mental health (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Health care (2 works) · Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints (2 works) · Injustice (2 works)