Title: The new informants
First published: 1995
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.
Subjects: Confidential communications, Interpersonal communication, Moral and ethical aspects, Moral and ethical aspects of Interpersonal communication, Moral and ethical aspects of Psychotherapist and patient, Physicians, Psychotherapist and patient, Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory, Psychotherapy, New York Times reviewed, Confidentiality, Professional-Patient Relations, Communication, Ethics
LC classification: RC480.8 .B65 1995