Abstract

TEIXEIRA, Rita Petrarca  and  NUNES, Maria Lucia Tiellet. The use of the informed consent in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Aletheia [online]. 2007, n.26, pp. 137-145. ISSN 1413-0394.

The use of the informed consent in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and the attention to the bioethics’ principles are mandatory in the research with human beings, but they are rarely used area of psychological therapies and counseling, even thought these are considered a correct ethical attitude expression that must be present in the relations between the psychotherapist and the patient. Thus, through the content’s analysis of five semi-structured interviews performed with psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists, it was possible to understand that the TCLE is considered only a formal document, and its use is seen as not only unnecessary and but also even harmful to the psychotherapy relation, although the interviewers consider bioethical principles of Beneficence and Respect essential to the psychotherapist practice.

Keywords : Bioethics; Informed consent; Psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

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