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Sigmund Freud, in his 1905 paper reporting on the case study of a young hysteric named Dora [6], stated that “now I shall be accused of giving information about my patients which ought not be given.” Ernest Jones [9], Freud’s biographer, reported that the editor of the Journal für Psychologie und Neurologie returned this paper on the grounds that it possibly constituted a breach of medical discretion. Freud, noting the sensitivity of the issue, elaborated in his prefatory remarks on the precautions he had taken to protect his clients’ identity. Fifty years later, Stanton and Schwartz [20], in their study of the mental hospital, stated: “... psychoanalytic practice was to use great care in protecting confidence... on the general principle that only the patient was to decide...”
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Schneider, S., Moses, R. (1986). The Psychiatric Case Register and Confidentiality. In: Carmi, A., Schneider, S., Hefez, A. (eds) Psychiatry — Law and Ethics. Medicolegal Library, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82574-3_27
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