Federal Security Mandate! Electronic Storage and Transmission of Records1 © Lawrence E. Hedges, Ph.D., Psy.D., ABPP Your Duty to Protect The federal government has spent more than a decade studying the problem of electronic storage and transmission of confidential Protected Health Information (PHI). The Security Rule, while initially developed under the HIPPA administration, is now […]

Guarding Against Violations of Your E-Boundaries © Lawrence E. Hedges, Ph.D., Psy.D., ABPP Clients with borderline and organizing (psychotic) transferences may request extra telephone contact between sessions which is usually manageable because it is direct contact. But some clients may want to e-mail or fax frequent and long messages, letters, pages from their journal, or […]

Some General Record Keeping Guidelines Law and ethics require that we exercise due diligence in keeping confidential and secure the records of all of our professional contacts. Licensing boards, attorneys, and judges expect us to comply with case law, professional ethics, and administrative regulations. Our confidential notes are considered a limited access public record that […]

Summary Chart:  The Seven Deadly Fears 1.  The Fear of Being Alone We dread reaching out and finding nobody there to respond to our needs.  We fear being ignored, being left alone, and being seen as unimportant.  We feel the world does not respond to our needs.  So what’s the use? 2.  The Fear of […]

Why Listening Perspectives In Psychotherapy is a Classic  Stephen Johnson, PhD Listening Perspectives is a classic in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. It deserves to be kept alive for a long, long time. First, and most obviously, Listening Perspectives… is a tour de force of scholarship and integration. It is a unifying review of the most important contributions of psychoanalysis beginning […]