The new informants
Subtitle: the betrayal of confidentiality in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy
By: Christopher Bollas and David Sundelson.
Contributors: Sundelson, David, 1946-
Publisher: J. Aronson
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Northvale, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Psychotherapist and patient -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Interpersonal communication -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Confidential communications -- Physicians.
Description: The authors, a therapist and a lawyer, document the erosion of psychotherapist-patient confidentiality caused by the reporting laws, by the requirements of managed care, and by other features of the contemporary culture of disclosure. They analyze the failure of organized psychology, psychiatry, and social work to sound the alarm about such invasions, a failure especially perplexing in light of judicial sympathy for the psychotherapist-patient privilege.

To the authors, psychotherapy without confidentiality is impossible. They propose important remedies for this clinical and ethical disaster.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-204) and index.