Ketamine-Induced Dissociation as an Ethical Signal, Not a Side Effect: Context as the Determinant of Clinical Duties Under Beneficence and Non-maleficence
HEC Forum September 9, 2026 Gun Moon, Jack Noto, Zachary Shuler et al.
Ketamine has emerged as an important intervention in contemporary psychiatry, yet its acute dissociative effects remain ethically under-theorized. Clinical approaches often frame dissociation as either a liability to minimize or a therapeutic feature to promote, but both views oversimplify a context-dependent phenomenon. We propose that ketamine-induced dissociation is better understood as an...