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Article on Anne Sexton and her psychiatrist
BonesMS:
--- Quote from: JustKathy on March 26, 2012, 11:47:36 AM ---
--- Quote ---How would anyone feel if their therapists published their comments, posthumously, in order to make money off of selling a book? I am NOT comfortable with it at all!!!
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I'm not comfortable with it either. When I share my private thoughts with my therapist, I expect them to remain that way. If I passed away, and my therapist wanted to use the context of our sessions anonymously for educational purposes, that's fine, and something I would be on board with as it might help other victims. I would NOT want my name attached to it, though. Using a famous person's name for profit is most definitely wrong. I actually see this is as being potentially dangerous. What if a celebrity who desperately needs help decides against seeing a psychiatrist out of confidentially concerns? The consequences could be dire.
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I agree!!!
The consequences could be DEADLY!
Bones
teartracks:
It appears that Orne chose to put a contemporaneous 'spin' on his professional relationship Anne Sexton.
I expect the world of psychiatry (and folks like us) will choose sides and discuss why they think it was legal, illegal, good, bad, beneficial or not until the cows come home. Personally, I am in favor of strict adherence to confidentiality. If I were choosing a psychiatrist, I'd try to get their opinion of Dr. Orne's action. After that, I'd evaluate whether their answer had a thick veil of fairy dust on it. :lol: Always a skeptic...
tt
BonesMS:
--- Quote from: teartracks on March 27, 2012, 01:22:21 AM ---
It appears that Orne chose to put a contemporaneous 'spin' on his professional relationship Anne Sexton.
I expect the world of psychiatry (and folks like us) will choose sides and discuss why they think it was legal, illegal, good, bad, beneficial or not until the cows come home. Personally, I am in favor of strict adherence to confidentiality. If I were choosing a psychiatrist, I'd try to get their opinion of Dr. Orne's action. After that, I'd evaluate whether their answer had a thick veil of fairy dust on it. :lol: Always a skeptic...
tt
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I agree, TT.
The Mental Health Profession has a WRITTEN Code of Ethics for a reason and psychiatrists SHOULD KNOW BETTER than to violate that Code! Violators can and do lose their licenses to practice.
Bones
sKePTiKal:
tt - let me toss a poet's name into that same "should read" category of intensity - Mary Oliver. My T recommended her to me and while it repelled me to dive right into those emotions... it was the right thing for me to do, at the time. If you google her name, you'll find a fair number of poems online. It's sorta like being sandblasted - hurts like hell during; but you're smoother and squeekier clean afterward.
KayZee:
Oh, P.R. I couldn't agree more. I've always loved Mary Oliver. So therapeutic. And often so beautiful it hurts.
Below is one of my eternal favorites. Something in it has always just spoken to me. Probably, the suggestion that just being myself, having my own wants/needs/desires (i.e. being an entity separate from my NM) is not something I have to spend the rest of my life apologizing for and repenting over. Plus, the fact that even though I don't have a real place in my FOO doesn't mean I don't have a "place" in the world--in the cosmic "family." - Kay x
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting --
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
- Mary Oliver, "Wild Geese."
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