Appendix B: Examples of current notices A comprehensive review of how component societies have addressed various aspects of confidentiality might be a useful, but substantial, undertaking. Given time constraints, the Committee has gathered only a limited number of representative examples of current practice, which follow . NB: These are not intended as good or bad models, to be imitated or avoided, but simply as representative examples of statements currently in use. Examples of notices for authors International Journal of Psychoanalysis “In all submissions involving case reports authors should state in their cover letter which method they have chosen of protecting the patient's privacy (Gabbard, IJP 2000, 81:1071- 1086). Such information should be kept out of the published paper itself to avoid undermining the disguise. When consent is obtained from the patient or patients, authors should indicate in the cover letter if the written consent has been saved and is available if necessary. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from the copyright owner to use quotations, poetry, song lyrics etc and these permissions need to be supplied with the final accepted version of their article.” Revue Française de Psychanalyse “Secret professionnel “L’article proposé ne doit comporter aucune violation du secret professionnel. Il doit respecter l’éthique psychanalytique et ne présenter aucun élément à caractère diffamatoire. Dans les illustrations cliniques, le patient ne doit pouvoir être identifié par des tiers et ce qui est écrit doit pouvoir être repris avec lui sans que cela ne nuise à son analyse s’il venait à lire l’article.” Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis/Revue canadienne de psychanalyse “Authors warrant that they have taken appropriate measures to preserve confidentiality and protect patient anonymity within the ethical framework of the psychoanalytic profession (or of their own profession, if other than psychoanalytic). Sharing and publication of anonymous clinical material continues to be essential to the growth of individual analysts as well as to the advancement of the analytic profession as a whole. Yet the need to communicate our clinical experiences complicates the ethical requirement to preserve the confidentiality of the clinical encounter. There is no perfect solution to this dilemma, but there exist several time-honoured approaches to preserving confidentiality and to protecting the anonymity of the patient (and the privacy of anyone else involved), while maintaining the scientific integrity of a clinical publication: disguise, patient consent, the process approach, the use of composites, the use of short clinical vignettes or of
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