Confidential Relationships: Psychoanalytic, Ethical, And Legal Contexts (value Inquiry Book Series 141)

This 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. Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Editorial Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Part One INTRODUCTION ONE Questions and Themes Part Two PSYCHOANALYSIS TWO The Questionable Contribution of Psychotherapeutic and Psychoanalytic Records to the Truth-Seeking Process THREE A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Confidentiality: The Divided Mind in Treatment FOUR Public, Private ... FIVE Welcoming Big Brother: The Malaise of Confidentiality In the Therapeutic Culture Part Three ETHICS SIX The Moral Framework of Confidentiality and the Electronic Panopticon SEVEN Confidentiality in the Liberal Tradition: A Relational Critique EIGHT Sexual Inequality and the Crisis of Confidentiality: The Myth and the Law on Personal Records NINE Relational Remembering: Suggestibility and Women's Confidential Records Part Four LAW TEN Psychotherapist-Patient Privilege: The History and Significance of the United States Supreme Court's Decision in the Case of Jaffee v. Redmond ELEVEN Responding to Defense Demands for Clients' Records in Sexual Violence Cases: Some Guidance for Record Keepers TWELVE Confidentiality, Human Relationships, and Law Reform About the Contributors Index VALUE INQUIRY BOOK SERIES Titles Published Though it is not likely to determine the outcome of any general elections, the problem of confidentiality in psychotherapy has developed so many complex policy ramifications in the last few decades that it may now be considered a political bell-weather issue.