Confidentiality and Its discontents : dilemmas of privacy in psychotherapy /

Mosher, Paul W.,

Confidentiality and Its discontents : dilemmas of privacy in psychotherapy / Paul W. Mosher and Jeffrey Berman. - New York : Fordham University Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource. - Psychoanalytic interventions .

Includes bibliographies and index.

We have met the enemy, and he (is) was us -- The buried bodies case: lawyers risk their careers to defend their ethical commitment to client privacy -- The case of Joseph Lifschutz: a psychoanalyst in jail -- "The angry act": the psychoanalyst's breach of confidentiality in Philip Roth's life and art -- Angry acts and counteracts in Philip Roth's life and art -- The case of Jane Doe v. Joan Roe and Peter Poe: the most extensive violation ever of a psychotherapy patient's privacy -- The Anne Sexton controversy: "There is nothing like this in the history of literary biography!" -- The tarasoff case: must the protective privilege end where the public peril begins? -- Jaffee v. Redmond: the supreme court speaks -- The people v. Robert Bierenbaum: "Long-ago warnings cannot justify abrogating the privilege covering still confidential communications" -- United States v. Sol Wachtler: "This chief judge is either crazy or criminal."

Confidentiality and Its Discontents: Dilemmas of Privacy in Psychotherapy explores the human stories arising from the psychotherapist's dual allegiance to patient and society. These dilemmas include the hazards of publishing a case study without the patient's permission and the unexpected problems arising from the therapist functioning as a "double agent."



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Confidential communications--Psychiatrists.
Psychotherapy.
Privacy, Right of.
Physician and patient.
Confidential communications.
Medical personnel and patient.
Confidentiality
Privacy
Psychotherapy
Professional-Patient Relations


Electronic Books.

RC480 / .C664 2015