Negotiating Consent in Psychotherapy / / Patrick O'Neill.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: O'Neill, Patrick,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1998]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Language: English
• Series: Qualitative Studies in Psychology ; 13
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Psychotherapists have an ethical requirement to inform clients about their treatment methods, alternative treatment options, and alternative conceptions of their problem. While accepting the basis for this "informed consent" requirement, therapists have traditionally resisted giving too much information, arguing that exposure to alternative therapies could cause confusion and distress. The raging debates over false/recovered memory syndrome and the larger move towards medical disclosure have pushed the question to the fore: how much information therapists should provide to their clients? In Negotiating Consent in Psychotherapy, Patrick O'Neill provides an in-depth study of the ways in which therapists and clients negotiate consent. Based on interviews with 100 therapists and clients in the areas of eating disorders and sexual abuse, the book explores the tangle of issues that make informed consent so difficult for therapists, including what therapists believe should be part of consent and why; how they decide when consent should be renegotiated; and how clients experience this process of negotiation and renegotiation.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Therapy as Narrative Structure -- 1. Informed Consent as a Challenge for Psychotherapists -- 2. Asking Questions -- 3. Making Meaning -- 4. Clients with Eating Disorders -- 5. Survivors of Sexual Abuse -- 6. Sex Offenders -- 7. Conclusion: Therapy as Negotiated -- References -- Index -- About the Author