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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldberg, Arnold, 1929-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychotherapists--Professional ethics.

Psychotherapists.

Psychotherapist and patient--Moral and ethical aspects.

Psychotherapist and patient.

Interpersonal relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (159 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

How "correct behavior" insinuates itself into psychotherapeutic practice

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 was wrong about the analysts' actions? In Moral Stealth, Goldberg explores and explains that problem of "correct behavior." He demonstrates that the inflated and official expectations that are part of an analyst's training-that therapists be universally curious, hopeful, kind, and purposeful, for example-are often of less help than simple empathy amid the ambiguous morality of actual patient interactions. Being a good therapist and being a good person, he argues, are not necessarily the same. Drawing on case studies from his own practice and from the experiences of others, as well as on philosophers such as John Dewey, Slavoj Žižek, and Jürgen Habermas, Goldberg breaks new ground and leads the way for therapists to understand the relationship between private morality and clinical practice.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-145) and index.

ISBN:

9786611956899

9781281956897

1281956899

9780226301365

0226301362

OCLC:

476228757