Dear listmates:

        I, too, do not see how a forum such as this can do what it should
without detailed discussion of cases in which all participants have access to
accurate information.  The alternative I would suggest is that at least some
of the discussion concern individuals who are no longer living.  In this way,
concerns about confidentiality would not get in the way of frank interchange.
In addition, there would not be need to obscure the case by including
fictional details that might distort the issues.  We could start with some of
Freud's cases, e.g. Bertha Pappenheim, about whom many details are now
available.

Don

Donald K. Routh
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>  Commenting Robert's:
>
>  The suggestion of the figure of a supervisor was just in order to
> prevent and protect the analyst, covering and concealing any
> risky information that could be forgotten by her/him ( the analyst ).
>
>  The supervisor could only forward the message or send it back to
> the sender warning her/him of something.
>  He shall never make any changes on it.
>
>  Forgive me, because I put:
>
> >>"2.The coordinator would make a resume, not mentioning the sender
> >>nor giving any personal details about the client or the analyst,
> >>and would sent it to the List under a specific name and number;"
>
>  Of course only the supervisor would know the analyst's name, not the
> name of the pacient; the resume was a mistake, and the fictional name
> and number would give background mentioning that it was only an
> exercise of text interpretation, just like we see in the end of
> movies, ..those characteres are fictional, although a few or all of
> them could happen to any person...
>
>  As a matter of fact we do not discuss about persons, but
> fictional behaviours, roles, which are possible to any person in the
> world, no matter nationality, sex or race, that may characterize her,
> him, them.
>
>  I am not trying to develope the proposal, all I do is: try to answer
> the questions of another one whose thoughts are important to all of us.
>
>  Of course the reponsability will rely only on the shoulders of those
> who have courage and needs enough to make research.
>
>  Imagine if someone from any other country sends me a message about
> a client of his or her own and I take the pacient actions as from one
> of mine, from another country, under other laws and put them
> under discussion on a List. Any person could say: this is my material,
> my privacy was broken !!
>
>  Would it had been ?
>
>  I think that even this kind of discussion is something very
>  important. Regards to you all.
>  Osmar
>