{"product_id":"confidentiality-charles-d-levin-9781138005679","title":"Confidentiality: Ethical Perspectives and Clinical Dilemmas","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe distinguished contributors to \u003cem\u003eConfidentiality\u003c\/em\u003e 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 ask, should we understand confidentiality in a psychoanalytically meaningful way? Is confidentiality a therapeutic requisite of psychoanalysis, an ethical precept independent of psychoanalytic principles, or simply a legal accommodation with the powers that be? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn wrestling with these questions, the contributors to \u003cem\u003eConfidentiality\u003c\/em\u003e are responding to a professional, ethical, and political crisis in the field of mental health. Psychotherapy - especially long-term psychotherapy in its psychoanalytic variants - has been undermined by an erosion of personal privacy that has become part of our cultural \u003cem\u003ezeitgeist\u003c\/em\u003e. The heightened demand for public transparency has forced caregivers from all walks of professional life to submit to increasing bureaucratic regulation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor the contributors to this collection, the need for confidentiality is centrally involved in the relationship of the psychotherapeutic professions both to society and to the law. No less importantly, the requirement of confidentiality brings a clarifying perspective to debates within the psychotherapeutic literature about the relationship of theory to practice. It thereby provides a framework for shaping a set of ethical principles specifically adapted to the psychotherapeutic, and especially to the psychoanalytic, relationship. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLinking general issues of privacy to the intimate details of psychotherapeutic encounter, \u003cem\u003eConfidentiality\u003c\/em\u003e will serve as a basic guide to a wide range of professionals, including lawyers, social scientists, philosophers, and, of course, psychotherapists. Therapy patients, policy makers, and the wider public will also find it instructive to know more about the special protected conditions under which one can better come to \"know thyself.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charles D. Levin,Allanah Furlong,Mary Kay O'Neil\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1138005673\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781138005679\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/09\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 350\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Charles D. Levin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48447825576191,"sku":"9781138005679","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b6a7c010-ddff-4e8e-b2aa-972cc0658cdd.jpg?v=1777235073","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/confidentiality-charles-d-levin-9781138005679","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}