<p style="text-align: justify;">This article provides an overview and analysis of ethical legal requirements regarding confidentiality in the professional activities a practicing psychologist. The aspects maintaining are outlined, as well legislative possibilities determining its limits relationship “psychologist/ psychotherapist — client” analyzed. opinion i...

The Livingston integrated health services project is an attempt to provide a fully integrated area health service with special emphasis on developing multidisciplinary community health teams. As part of this experiment a clinical psychologist was appointed to work in general practice. Ninety-four patients with behavioural, emotional, and cognitive problems were referred in the first year (1% of...

Houses of worship are not places where psychiatrists typically expect to gain insight into forensic issues. But a few years ago, a rabbi’s comments on a familiar passage from Leviticus helped me resolve an intrapsychic conflict that had troubled me for years, ever since I learned about the Tarasoff decisions. When I give first-year residents their introductory lessons on legal issues and psychi...

The endeavor of psychological inquiry is unique among all sciences in one important respect. The scientist hopes to understand phenomena which themselves are critically involved in the process of understanding. Ultimately, the subject matter of the psychologist is the psychologist. M. C. Escher's Drawing Hands (Figure 1) sums up our dilemma more exactly than might any verbal statement. In this ...

Accused of strangling his girlfriend Gloria to death, Robert Wilkins testified at trial that his girlfriend had attacked him first, causing him to suffer visible slashes on his left wrist and on his abdomen. Attempting to contradict Wilkins’s allegations, the People sought to introduce the testimony of Dr. K.C. Sharma, a licensed psychologist, to reveal that Wilkins admitted to Dr. Sharma that ...

Intervention Collaborative team-led, guideline-based treatment plan with monitoring of the plan’s implementation in primary care, and patient support versus traditional psychiatric specialist consultation and liaison. The collaborative specialist team, who developed treatment plans based on published guidelines, included a clinical psychologist, psychiatrist, social workers and psychology techn...

The psychologist and social scientist are aware of the complexities of phenomena in their own field and may look upon the metaphors and analogies of the cyberneticians with skepticism. The danger is that eventually some cybernetician goes astray and makes proposals which to the psychologist and social scientist are completely outrageous. The end point of the process may come when each field ret...

for alexandr sergeyevich pushkin, one of the greatestrevolutionary novelists and poets of the 19th century, society and thegoverning power were two lifetime issues. pushkin portrayed different socialclasses including farmers, peasants, and rulers. moreover, he was master offorming character types. one of these character types that has been mainlydealt with in this study is the superfluous man i...