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Explores the theoretical and practical implications of confidentiality and disclosure for professionals working with people who have mental health problems. The work outlines the theoretical, ethical, legal and professional issues which underpin decisions about confidentiality. The contributors draw from their practical experience of a range of professional contexts including adolescent forensic psychiatry, criminal law, secure forensic psychiatry, child protection, community psychiatry and social work. This topical volume should enable professionals, academics and policy makers to meet both the needs of clients and the demands of society through a responsible understanding of the significance of confidentiality and disclosure.

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9781853028601

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'This thoughtful and comprehensive book addresses a double bind afflicting doctors and psychotherapists. Material disclosed by patients must be kept confidential at all times: but, increasdingly, in multidisciplinary teams, in forensic contexts, in litigation, in work with children, or with families there is a counter-obligation to breach confidentiality. Is the notion of confidentiality now a myth? Should confidentiality be openly abandoned? Christopher Cordess has gathered together an impressive collection of essays from psychiatry, psychoanalysis, philosophy, the law, social work, and nursing. The essays explore the difficulties of maintaining confidentiality in a wide range of contexts, from prisons to community psychiatry, from child protection to research, from clinical practice to legal practice... Group analysts who work in multidisciplinary teams, with children or young people, or in forensic psychotherapy will gain much from this book. So too will those who, by choice or force, find themselves caught up in litigation, or inquirires, statutory or otherwise. The book is beautifully and meticulously presented, and a pleasure to read.' -Group Analysis

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Christopher Cordess is Professor of Forensic Psychiatry in the School of Health and Related Research at the University of Sheffield and is a psychoanalyst. He is also Honorary Consultant and Director of Research at Rampton Hospital. He was formerly Honorary Senior Lecturer in forensic psychiatry at Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School.

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