Abstract the current societal contract regarding psychotherapy in many cultures implies that
therapy is, or should be, value-free/argue that societal contracts should be based on a public …

The author explores unfavorable comparisons between psychoanalysts and medical
psychiatry, tracing the crisis in the mental health fields created by managed care. This …

Psychoanalysis inherited the question, what happened when the doctor's speech became
the materia medica?, from hypnotism and provided a novel form of rapprochement between …

All therapeutic practice is underpinned by philosophy:'one cannot engage in psychotherapy
without giving operational evidence of an underlying value orientation and view of human …

The offer is the opening into a foundational ethics for psychoanalysis. This ethics asks how
the analytic situation is secured in the first place, how the frame is set. Foundational ethics …

The ethical challenge in psychoanalytic conversations is about listening as an act of
witnessing, with a willingness to surrender when called for, with a tempered reliance on the …

This insightful and innovative book sheds light on the complexity of the concept of guilt,
while exploring aspects of guilt that have previously been overlooked in psychoanalytic …

One ethical issue that commonly comes up in clinical practice is the negotiation of fees with
clients. Although the APA Ethics Code provides standards regarding clients who are unable …