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    • Psychiatry
    • Virtual Reality Technology
    • Bioethics

    Background:

    • Virtual reality (VR) technology has advanced, enabling realistic shared virtual environments for clinical applications, particularly in psychiatry.
    • While VR is used in mental health treatment, such as exposure therapy, ethical considerations require deeper examination.
    • The intersection of advanced VR capabilities and clinical practice necessitates a thorough ethical review.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To identify and analyze ethical concerns associated with the clinical use of virtual reality in psychiatry.
    • To explore specific ethical themes including reality representation, user autonomy, privacy, self-diagnosis, and expectation bias.
    • To advocate for the development of a comprehensive ethical framework for VR in psychiatric settings.

    Main Methods:

    • A thematic literature search was conducted to identify ethical issues.
    • Analysis focused on five emergent themes: reality representation, autonomy, privacy, self-diagnosis/treatment, and expectation bias.
    • The study synthesizes existing literature to address ethical challenges in psychiatric VR.

    Main Results:

    • Five key ethical themes were identified: reality and its representation, autonomy, privacy, self-diagnosis and self-treatment, and expectation bias.
    • The theme of reality representation is critical, especially when patients' perceptions of reality are affected, as in psychosis.
    • Autonomy in VR psychiatric applications is an under-discussed but significant ethical concern.

    Conclusions:

    • The clinical application of VR in psychiatry presents unique ethical challenges that demand careful consideration.
    • Existing ethical discussions in biomedical ethics do not fully encompass the nuances of VR in psychiatric care.
    • An ethical framework is recommended to guide the responsible and safe implementation of VR in clinical psychiatry.