Ethics in Psychoanalysis

Fourth Year Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2020-21, 3rd Trimester — Fridays, 3:30-5:00pm
Karen Weisbard, PsyD
Denise C.K. Fort, PhD

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May 14, 2021 — Grounding

[7 pages]

This paper will ground our discussion on what it means to have a moral and ethical stance in psychoanalysis. It will help us discuss our biases, and how we may impose or assume that we share the same beliefs as our clients. This is fruitful discussion for when or how to talk about current cultural and political issues with our clients. It will allow us to think about the concepts of self-disclosure and neutrality.

Layton, L. (2016). On Moralism and Ethics: Associations to Henry Abelove’s “Freud, Male Homosexuality, and the Americans”. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 17, 95-101.