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Book SynopsisThis book focuses the collective attention of psychotherapists, the legal community, social scientists, and ethicists on the moral, legal, and clinical problems of confidentiality in psychotherapeutic practice. By providing timely and important interdisciplinary contributions, the book opens the way to understanding, if not resolving, the conflicting interests and values at stake in the debate on confidentiality.
Trade Review"Nearly every essay in the dozen that make up this collection sheds genuinely fresh light on some aspect of the “confidential relationships” referred to in the volume’s title, namely, the confidential relationships between psychotherapist and patient (or client). With sometimes complementary, sometimes contradictory perspectives, the contributing psychoanalysts, philosophers, and law professors engage the reader and each other in a fascinating and thought-provoking conversation on the meaning, scope, and significance of psychotherapist-patient confidentiality. … At a time when confidential relationships (at least in North America), including but not limited to therapist-patient relationships, are under attack from the legal system, the health-care-industrial complex, and perhaps our confessional “therapeutic culture” itself, this book comes as a needed antidote - a multifaceted, multidisciplinary exploration of the value, meaning, and even the cost of confidentiality. … nearly every essay in the book contains some fact or theoretical insight about confidential relationships - psychotherapeutic and otherwise - for which professionals and non-professionals alike will be grateful." - in: Metapsychology (online book review), 2004
Table of ContentsEditorial Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Part One INTRODUCTION ONE Charles LEVIN, Christine M. KOGGEL, and Allannah FURLONG: Questions and Themes Part Two PSYCHOANALYSIS Allannah FURLONG: The Questionable Contribution of Psychotherapeutic and Psychoanalytic Records to the Truth-Seeking Process THREE R.D. HINSHELWOOD: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Confidentiality: The Divided Mind in Treatment FOUR Jacques MAUGER: Public, Private … FIVE Charles LEVIN and Christine URY : Welcoming Big Brother : The Malaise of Confidentiality in the Therapeutic Culture Part Three ETHICS SIX Michael YEO and Andrew BROOK: The Moral Framework of Confidentiality and the Electronic Panopticon SEVEN Christine M. KOGGEL: Confidentiality in the Liberal Tradition: A Relational Critique EIGHT Margaret DENIKE: Sexual Inequality and the Crisis of Confidentiality: The Myth and the Law on Personal Records NINE Sue CAMPBELL: Relational Remembering: Suggestibility and Women’s Confidential Records Part Four LAW TEN Paul W. MOSHER: Psychotherapist-Patient Privilege: The History and Significance of the United States Supreme Court’s Decision in the Case of Jaffee v. Redmond ELEVEN Karen BUSBY: Responding to Defense Demands for Clients’ Records in Sexual Violence Cases: Some Guidance for Record Keepers TWELVE Nathalie des ROSIERS: confidentiality, Human Relationships, and Law Reform About the Contributors Index
