Confidentiality and Its Discontents by Paul W Mosher

Confidentiality and Its Discontents by Paul W Mosher

Confidentiality and Its Discontents: Dilemmas of Privacy in Psychotherapy explores the human stories arising from the psychotherapist's dual allegiance to patient and society. These dilemmas include the hazards of publishing a case study without the patient's permission and the unexpected problems arising from the therapist functioning as a double agent.

Confidentiality and Its Discontents is an excellent account of confidentialityIt is a must-read for all clinicians, especially those who struggle with this issue as the actors in these stories did. -Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association Written by two of the leading individuals in the field, Confidentiality and Its Discontents is a clearly readable and well-argued account of the debates about confidentiality in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. The book is extremely well presented and adds immeasurably to the literature on the topic. -- -Sander Gilman Emory University Confidentiality and Its Discontents provides careful descriptions and discussions of a range of privacy cases that demonstrate the rapidly-escalating problems associated with the supposed confidentiality of the psychotherapeutic relationship. Confidentiality and Its Discontents will be a useful and unique resource to many mental health training programs. -- -Paul Brinich Clin. Prof. (Emeritus), Depts. of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Paul Mosher is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Albany, New York, and is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Albany Medical School. He has served as the Chair of the Committee on Confidentiality of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Jeffrey Berman is Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at the University at Albany. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, Death Education in the Writing Classroom and Dying in Character: Memoirs on the End of Life. He is an honorary member of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

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ISBN 13	9780823265091
ISBN 10	0823265099
Title	Confidentiality and Its Discontents
Author	Paul W Mosher
Series	Psychoanalytic Interventions
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Fordham University Press
Year published	2015-07-01
Number of pages	360
Prizes	Winner of Courage to Dream Book Prize 2016, Short-listed for American Board & Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize 2016
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