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Appendix A: Patient Anonymisation Checklist
(used with permission from The International Journal of Psychoanalysis)
Publication of clinical material by psychoanalysts and psychotherapists is essential to the development of knowledge in psychoanalysis and the broader mental health field and the growth and maintenance of high standards of patient care. Patient privacy should be protected such that patients can speak and act freely with full confidence . Ethical and legal considerations require theprotection of patients’ anonymity in case reports and elsewhere. Authors whose papers include accounts of clinical work are required to take all necessary measures to ensure that none of the individuals written about can be identified by any third party and to fully minimise the likelihood that patients will recognise themselves. To meet these objectives, this publication has adopted guidelines to be followed by all authors, which are required in the online submission and throughout the review process. Special care should be takenin cases including children and adolescents. There will be no exceptions. Fill out the below checklist using Adobe PDF Fill & Sign and submit this document with yourmanuscript in the Submission Portal.
Submitting Your Anonymised Article
The form below contains a check list whose purpose is to create the space to think about what might be being disclosed (even unconsciously), which could identify a patient. The anonymisation policy and check-list below are not intended to discourage papers addressing intersectional or other issues where background matters. Rather, what authors are required to dois to verify that they have reflected on the details they have given and how far they are suitable for their particular argument. Therefore, on reflection, they must be confident that they are not disclosing their patients’ identity, and they must indicate which method(s) of anonymisation hasbeen used.
1. Confirm by Checking the Box
☐ I verify that I have reflected on potential identifiers that might make the patients described in thispaper identifiable to third parties and following that process I am confident that my patient's identityis now unrecognisable to others and as unrecognizable to him/her/themself as possible.
2. Have you Protected the Patient from Identification (explain using more than one, if so)?
☐ Thorough Disguise of Individual Patients ☐ When presented, details of patient-therapist interactions have been described so as to precludeidentification of the patient.
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