Moral stealth : how "correct behavior" insinuates itself into psychotherapeutic practice / Arnold Goldberg.

A psychiatrist writes a letter to a journal explaining his decision to marry a former patient. Another psychiatrist confides that most of his friends are ex-patients. Both practitioners felt they had to defend their behavior, but psychoanalyst Arnold Goldberg couldn?t pinpoint the reason why. What w...

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Main Author: Goldberg, Arnold, 1929-2020
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Setting the stage
  • Positioning psychoanalysis and psychotherapy for moral concerns
  • Moral stealth
  • The moral posture of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy: the case for moral ambiguity
  • A risk of confidentiality
  • On the nature of thoughtlessness
  • I wish the hour were over: elements of a moral dilemma
  • Psychotherapy and psychoanalysis and the problem of ownership: an effort at resolution
  • Who owns the countertransference?
  • Another look at neutrality
  • Deontology and the superego
  • Choosing up sides
  • Making morals manifest.