title: Intimacy and confidentiality in psychotherapeutic relationships.
abstract: This article explores the relations among and between intimacy, psychotherapeutic relationships and moral advice. The article concludes that a psychotherapeutic relationship is not usefully explained in terms of intimacy. Instead, a psychiatric relationship is a form of moral advice, and it is this dimension of a psychotherapeutic relationship as a form of moral advice that poses a natural limit to the confidentiality necessary for engaging in psychotherapy.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lipkin
mesh_terms: D003219:Confidentiality / Q000523:psychology*; D003376:Counseling / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D028681:Moral Obligations; D009014:Morals; D010550:Personal Space; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000592:standards*; D012945:Social Values; D028722:Virtues