ABSTRACT
Medical ethics uses general ethical principles to discuss moral problems that arise within and as a result of medical practice. The general principles of a code of ethics may offer such protection to individual doctors, and to prevent them from being used to legitimize the oppressive practices of tyrannical regimes. A code of practice can include well-defined requirements that can be enforced by an employer or a professional body. A professional code of ethics for psychotherapy should include some statement of general principles to do with respect for the autonomy of everyone suffering from mental disturbance. A code of practice is really a set of detailed statements setting out how broadly defined policy objectives are to be implemented. A code of ethics that attempted to list all of them would be too long to be digestible and would, in any case, almost certainly fail to be comprehensive.
