Achté briefly and candidly reviews a variety of ethical issues inherent in psychiatric treatment, sometimes giving his own impressions, but generally avoiding the tendency to reach for premature closure. The difficulties therapists have in acknowledging their own limitations are discussed, as well as the temptation to intervene in a patient's life or, on the contrary, to adhere to a rigid, mechanical view of psychotherapy. Achté touches on the particular ethical hazards in group therapy and behavioral techniques. He considers the dilemma of involuntary treatment and the question of the right to suicide. These various themes are drawn together in a section on the need for study of the therapeutic process. Finally, connection is made to the general topic of the ethics of science.