The New Informants: The Betrayal of Confidentiality in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

by Christopher Bollas and David Sundelson

Book Overview

The practice of observing therapeutic confidentiality is so riddled with exceptions that it has all but disappeared. This book lucidly describes the disappearance of privacy, showing how the clinical effect of this loss has been destructive and how mental health professionals may respond constructively.
--The New England Journal of Medicine

The authors, a therapist and a lawyer, document the erosion of psychotherapist-patient...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568215959
• ISBN13: 9781568215952
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Jason Aronson
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"