To the Editor, Principles are important in life, and the recovery principles have become the central and invaluable theme in public mental health service provision (Wand, 2015). This, however, is in the context of psychiatry practice where the professional role of psychiatrists and their social contract with patients are ambiguous, the funding for the services are suboptimal, simplistic checklist approaches to assessment and treatment are common, and the clinical judgement and responsibility have been disconnected.