Further reflections on the impact of clinical writing on patients
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8972069 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Allannah Furlong (0000-0002-1757-5869, 2100 Marlowe Avenue, #533MontréalCanada, QC ‐ H4A 3L5, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 87 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 747-768 |
| Publication date | 2006-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7578 • E-ISSN: 1745-8315 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1516/1vu4-7rqb-0ced-nx6j |
| PMID | 16854736 |
| OpenAlex | W2150931743 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 39 |
Though it is unlikely that instituting universal guidelines will ever be possible for patient approval of the analyst's use of clinical material outside of the treatment setting, the author offers some supplementary reflections to those already available in the literature. Broadly applied informed consent guidelines would increase the distortion that already exists in our clinical literature due to self-imposed restraints by writers. Moreover, the powerful irrational forces mobilized by consent in the dyad are not easily 'held' by traditional applicable legal categories. Metapsychological formulations of the intrapsychic and intersubjective impact of patient participation in the writing process on individual analytic dyads are needed. Notions of privacy protection, validation, dyadic co-construction, or writing-as-containment by a third as rationales for informed consent fail to encompass the transindividual and external sources of human identity and the ineradicable lack of unity in the unconscious. Nevertheless, theoretical affinity and preferred technique may be mediating factors in positive outcomes of the consent process. Some paradigms not only accommodate more comfortably but also actively seek the intersubjective repercussions of informed consent. As an alternative or complementary viewpoint, the author offers the hypothesis that the clinical ramifications of either disguise or consent are not exclusively, nor even necessarily, concerned with what patients read about themselves, but what they assess or intuit--directly or indirectly through the material presented--of their analyst's unconscious strivings. To truly triangulate the clinical reporting project, it is wisest to consult the third ear of a colleague to assess the potential impact on patients on what might be being unconsciously transmitted by the analyst in the writing and the consent process
Aesthetics · Alternative medicine · Dyad · Epistemology · Identity (music · Informed consent · Irrational number · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Unconscious mind · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Medicine · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology
A Critique of Relational Psychoanalysis
Who Owns the Countertransference
Thirdness and Psychoanalytic Concepts
The Meanings and Uses of Countertransference
Deconstructing the Myth of the Neutral Analyst
The Relational Unconscious
The Analytic Third
Patients Reading about Themselves
The Third in Mind
Disguise or Consent
A risk of confidentiality
What's true and whose idea was it
Writing about patients III
Writing About Patients
Writing About Psychoanalysis
On Writing From Clinical Experience
The Case History
Patients' Responses to Their Own Case Reports
Writing About Patients
Observing The Erotic Imagination
The Analyst's Use of Clinical Data, and other Issues of Confidentiality
On Methods of Reporting Clinical Material
Writing About Patients
Writing About Patients
Ethical Considerations in the Writing of Psychoanalytic Case Histories
False Love"-"Why Not?" Fragments or an Analysis
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,26 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2025 (19) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |