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25th European Congress of Psychiatry / European Psychiatry 41S (2017) S8–S52 S51
Disclosure of interest The work presented was funded by the
Dutch ministry of Infrastructure and transport and the European
Committee.
S141
Driving ability and psychotropic
drugs: Legal framework, forensic
aspects
M. Graf
University Psychiatric Hospitals, Basel, Switzerland
Although the rate of victims of road traffic accidents is already rela-
tively low in Switzerland compared to other western countries, still
253 people died in 2015. The Swiss parliament therefore issued
in 2012 already a program called “Via secura” to increase road
traffic security by means of a package of measures, ranging from
immobilizing systems for the car in case of drunken drivers to
stricter rules for medical assessment of ability to drive a car and
better training for doctors in such assessment to finally stricter laws
regarding lower tolerance for alcohol levels and zero tolerance for
drug consumption when driving a car. The presentation will focus
on changes in legal regulation for both medical assessment as well
as rules for alcohol or drug consumption when driving a car. Posi-
tive and negative consequences for the field of forensic psychiatry
are discussed.
Disclosure of interest The author declares that he has no compet-
ing interest.
Symposium: Ethics and aesthetics in
psychiatry–Tasks and goals
S142
Ethics and aesthetics–Philosophical
perspectives
M. Poltrum
Antón Proksch Institute, Vienna, Austria
European intellectual history teaches us that beauty is not just an
adornment to life but is also a major source of strength for our
life. Moreover, the positive aesthetic experience also has healing
power. That beauty is a highly effective antidote to life’s suffering,
i.e. acts as an anti-depressant, has been documented in the tradition
of philosophical aesthetics fromPlato to Bloch. Beauty reveals truth
and goodness (Plato), it shows the harmonious order and the glory
of things (Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite), it is one of the tran-
scendental names of God (Thomas of Aquinas), in beauty the world
appears in its perfection (Baumgarten), beauty is the daughter of
freedom (Schiller), it offers a temporary escape from the suffering
of existence (Schopenhauer), aesthetic values are the only values
that withstand nihilism and the meaninglessness of existence and
are thus the actual stimulus of life (Nietzsche), the beautiful is the
sensual appearance of the idea (Hegel), beauty is an anti-depressant
and Weckamin of being, it tears people out of their forgetfulness of
Being (Heidegger), there is a close relationship between the shining
forth of the Beautiful and the evidentness of the Understandable
(Gadamer), in an artwork and through the aesthetic attitude the
Other, foreign, the non-identical that is mangled and mutilated
in the administered world is preserved and saved (Adorno). Many
more positive affirmative descriptions from the tradition of philo-
sophical aesthetics demonstrate that beauty and the aesthetic have
a therapeutic dimension.
Disclosure of interest The author declares that he has no compet-
ing interest.
S143
Ethics in transcultural psychiatry
M. Schouler-Ocak
Psychiatric University Clinic of Charité at St. Hedwig Hospital,
Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Berlin, Germany
Global migration and the increasing number of minority groups,
including immigrants, asylum seekers, refugees and ethnic minori-
ties, mean that increasingly, psychiatrists and patients may come
fromdifferent cultural backgrounds. Therefore, cultural differences
between patients and clinicians have become a matter of grow-
ing importance to mental health care as western societies have
become increasingly diverse. This talkwill attempt to illustrate how
attention to these cultural differences enriches the discussion of
ethics inmental health care. This talk will also attempt to underline
that cultural competence is able to enhance the ethical treatment
of mental health of patients from different cultural backgrounds.
Consequently, to be culturally competent, a clinician must be sen-
sitive, knowledgeable, and empathetic about cultural differences.
Therefore, cultural competence is a concrete, practical expression
of bioethics ideals. According to Hoop et al. in 2008, it is a practical,
concrete demonstration of the ethical principles of respect for per-
sons, beneficence (doing good), nonmaleficence (not doing harm),
and justice (treating people fairly), the cornerstones of ethical codes
for the health professions.
In this talk the complex relationship between culture, values, and
ethics in mental health care will be analyzed and discussed.
Disclosure of interest The author declares that he has no compet-
ing interest.
S144
Social aesthetics and mental
health–Theory and practice
M. Musalek
Anton Proksch Institute, Vienna, Austria
The Hows of dealing with life and with our fellow human beings
is the main focus of scientific endeavor of social aesthetics as
a multidisciplinary research domain. This knowledge about the
Hows of our social coexistence in general and in preventative and
curative medicine in particular provides the indispensable social
aesthetics foundation for therapeutic interventions in which the
individual once more becomes the measure of all things and activ-
ities. European intellectual history teaches us that beauty is not
just an adornment to life but is also a major source of strength
for our life. Moreover, the positive aesthetic experience also has
healing power. Social aesthetics that wishes also to be understood
as the science of beauty in interpersonal relationships provides
us with knowledge that in medical-therapeutic practice becomes
a key pillar of human-centred approaches to prevention and
treatment.
Disclosure of interest The author declares that he has no compet-
ing interest.