Psychological assessment of patients seeking organ transplant surgery
presents the potential for ethical conflict. Confidentiality, informed
consent, multiple loyalties, dual relationships, social justice, coll
aboration with families, responsibilities to donors, honesty, and avoi
dance of imposition of irrelevant moral values are discussed as they r
elate to the psychologist's relationship to the patient and to the ent
erprise of organ transplantation. Relevant standards from the Ethical
Principles of Psychologists and the Code of Conduct of the American Ps
ychological Association are applied, as are principles from biomedical
ethics.