Confidentiality : ethical perspectives and clinical dilemmas / edited by Charles Levin, Allannah Furlong, Mary Kay O'Neil.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Contributors -- 1. Confidentiality as a Virtue -- 2. Trust, Confidentiality, and the Possibility of Psychoanalysis -- 3. Having a Thought of One's Own -- 4. The Why of Sharing and Not the What: Confidentiality and Psychoanalytic Purpose -- 5. Civic Confidentiality and Psychoanalytic Confidentiality -- 6. Some Reflections on Confidentiality in Clinical Practice -- 7. Psychoanalytic Research and Confidentiality: Dilemmas -- 8. Confidentiality and Training Analyses -- 9. Confidentiality, Reporting and Training Analyses -- 10. Confidentiality, Privacy, and the Psychoanalytic Career -- 11. The Early History of the Concept of Confidentiality in Psychoanalysis -- 12. Confidentiality in Psychoanalysis: A Private Space for Creative Thinking and the Work of Transformation -- 13. Whose Notes Are They Anyway? -- 14. Outing the Victim: Breaches of Confidentiality in an Ethics Procedure -- 15. Confidentiality and Professionalism -- 16. Psychoanalytic Ethics: Has the Pendulum Swung Too Far? -- 17. We Have Met the Enemy and He (Is) Was Us -- 18. The American Psychoanalytic Association's Fight for Privacy -- 19. Legal Boundaries on Conceptions of Privacy: Seeking Therapeutic Accord -- 20. The Right to Privacy: A Comment on the Production of Complainants' Personal Records in Sexual-Assault Cases -- 21. A Psychoanalyst Looks at the Witness Stand -- Index.

"The distinguished contributors to Confidentiality probe the ethical, legal, and clinical implications of a deceptively simple proposition: Psychoanalytic treatment requires a confidential relationship between analyst and analysand. But how, they a"--Publisher description.

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