Privacy, Confidentiality, and Autonomy in Psychotherapy

Authors

William J. Winslade, Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Judith Wilson Ross, UCLA School of Medicine

Abstract

I. Introduction

II. The Concepts of Privacy and Confidentiality ... A. Background and Overview ... B. Privacy ... 1. Law ... 2. Economics ... 3. Anthropology ... 4. Philosophy ... 5. Psychology ... 6. Summary: Core Concepts of Privacy ... C. Confidentiality

III. Privacy and Confidentiality in Law ... A. Constitutional Law ... B. Tort Law ... C. Privilege Law ... 1. In Re Lifschutz ... 2. Caesar v. Mountanos ... 3. Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California

IV. Privacy and Confidentiality in Psychotherapists' Professional Ethics Codes ... A. Overview of Ethics Codes ... B. Form and Content of Confidential Information ... C. Occasions for Disclosure ... D. Consent and Notice of Limitations of Confidentiality ... E. Summary

V. Privacy and Confidentiality in the Therapeutic Relationship ... A. Psychotherapy ... B. The Psychodynamics of Privacy and Confidentiality in Psychoanalysis

VI. Conclusion

Recommended Citation

William J. Winslade and Judith Wilson Ross, Privacy, Confidentiality, and Autonomy in Psychotherapy, 64 Neb. L. Rev. (1985)
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