● Analysts who have reservations about sharing personal or process notes with their patients should think about how to prepare for such an eventuality. This might mean beginning a joint reflection with colleagues about how to handle such requests. ● Analysts should be reminded of the need for: acceptable standards of record- and file-keeping; keeping any official files on patients that may be required for insurance or regulatory purposes separate from process notes; ensuring that process notes do not contain any personal identifying information; maintaining secure storage for the time that records must be kept and ensuring the secure destruction of records once that time has passed. 9.6 Psychoanalysis and the wider community • The IPA should actively explore avenues by which it can make a distinctive contribution to discourse about confidentiality and privacy in the wider community. This should include, though it need not be limited to, attempts to inform law-makers and to influence the development of new legislation wherever this has implications for psychoanalytic confidentiality. This Report and/or the Ethics Code could be used to provide documentary support. • The IPA should encourage and support efforts by its members to collaborate with other psychoanalytic organizations in outreach and public educational activities relating to the ethical principle of confidentiality.
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