Confidentiality and its discontents : dilemmas of privacy in psychotherapy / Paul W. Mosher and Jeffrey Berman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

We have met the enemy, and he (is) was us -- The buried bodies case: lawyers risk their careers to defend their ethical commitment to client privacy -- The case of Joseph Lifschutz: a psychoanalyst in jail -- "The angry act": the psychoanalyst's breach of confidentiality in Philip Roth's life and art -- Angry acts and counteracts in Philip Roth's life and art -- The case of Jane Doe v. Joan Roe and Peter Poe: the most extensive violation ever of a psychotherapy patient's privacy -- The Anne Sexton controversy: "There is nothing like this in the history of literary biography!" -- The tarasoff case: must the protective privilege end where the public peril begins? -- Jaffee v. Redmond: the supreme court speaks -- The people v. Robert Bierenbaum: "Long-ago warnings cannot justify abrogating the privilege covering still confidential communications" -- United States v. Sol Wachtler: "This chief judge is either crazy or criminal".

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