Charles Levin, Alannah Furlong, May Kay O'Neill
Confidentiality : Psychoanalysis, Ethics, and the Law
- ISBN 13:
- 9780881633559
- author:
- Charles Levin, Alannah Furlong, May Kay O'Neill
- format:
- HardBack
- publisher:
- Routledge
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2003
- Pages:
- 350
- Dimensions:
- 152 mm X 229 mm
- Genre:
- Medicine Clinical Psychology Textbook
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Confidentiality: Ethical Perspectives and Clinical Dilemmas explores the complex relationship between confidentiality and psychoanalytic treatment. The contributors examine the ethical, legal, and clinical implications of maintaining confidentiality in a therapeutic setting. The need for confidentiality is central to debates within the psychotherapeutic literature about theory and practice. This collection provides a framework for shaping a set of ethical principles specifically adapted to the psychotherapeutic relationship. By probing the nature of confidentiality, the contributors respond to a professional crisis in the field of mental health. This book offers a nuanced exploration of confidentiality's role in the psychoanalytic profession, its implications for caregivers and society, and its relevance to ongoing debates within the psychotherapeutic literature.