Sharon Winkler, Psychotherapist, Vancouver WA

Articles About Privacy in Psychotherapy

“How Private is My Medical Information?” (from the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a not-for-profit consumer advocacy group; the information is objective and largely accurate, though a relatively new federal law called HIPAA has changed some of the particulars)

“Managed Care and Outpatient Therapy” (a reprint of an article by Dana Ackley, Ph.D., a psychologist)

Books About Psychoanalytic Psythotherapy

Rossner, Judith, August (a semi-autobiographical novel, centering on the author's own experience of intensive individual psychotherapy)

Renik, Owen, Practical Psychoanalysis for Therapists and Patients, NY: Other Press, 2006 (written for the layperson with a minimum of jargon)

Books About Families and Family Therapy

Napier, Augustus Y., The Family Crucible: One Family's Therapy, NY: Bantam Books, 1978 (nonfiction, though it reads like a novel)

Scarf, Maggie, Intimate Partners: Patterns in Love and Marriage, NY: Random House, 1987 (written by a journalist who completed family therapy training at the Family Institute of Westchester in New York for research purposes, this is an exceptionally clear and theoretically sound presentation of several popular approaches to understanding families)

Scarf, Maggie, Intimate Worlds: Life Inside the Family, NY: Random House, 1995

Books About Addiction

Dodes, Lance, The Heart of Addiction, NY: Harper, 2003 (a clear presentation of a controversial approach to addiction; this book is amply illustrated with case examples)