His main concern was that patients could find his real name and his secondary concern was that crazy people could easily find it. 2/3
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now, why would scott alexander siskind not want his patients to find that he used their cases for general entertainment of his blog readers? that's somewhat a mystery to my, but perhaps you have some insight here…
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It is fully consistent with APA guidelines to publish anonymized cases. If you have information that he didn't do so, you should report him to APA. But surely you are just a troll.
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Replying to @NotoriousAapje @_amtiskaw and
It's not about whether he committed a formal APA violation, it's about whether his patients might have been offended if they'd known the way he talked about patients on his blog, and if they'd have had a right to know about him doing so before going to him for treatment
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Replying to @arthur_affect @_amtiskaw and
The APA standard doesn't require consent or approval, so this is irrelevant. Any patient can read the APA guidelines and is at risk of being published about anonymously by any psychiatrist. If you have an issue with that, you should take it up with APA, not Scott.
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Replying to @NotoriousAapje @arthur_affect and
I don't think this is true. Lori Leibovich's book went into it a bit. (She's a psychologist who wrote about her patients.)
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Replying to @espiers @NotoriousAapje and
Scott's vivid description of both his contempt and *envy* of the convicted domestic abuser who'd had more girlfriends than him certainly crossed what most people would consider to be some sort of line, regardless of what the APA thinks
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Replying to @arthur_affect @espiers and
And yes, I would consider that still true if the patient in the story was an unrecognizable composite of several people or even just made up from whole cloth It's not about a HIPAA violation, it's about revealing Scott's attitude and his character
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NotoriousAapje and
This is a point I honestly didn't even think about: do his patients deserve to know he has some of these views that are antithetical to the treatment they think they're receiving?
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Replying to @espiers @arthur_affect and
Do you have psychiatric training that allows you to judge that?
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Wait are psychiatrists allowed to dictate what information their patients should or should not have access to online now? Especially when that information is about themselves and they have a conflict of interest? Wow talk about free speech
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NotoriousAapje and
Also, like... as someone who has to go through a gatekept medical system where I am subject to medical practitioners who regularly allow their politics and feelings about people like me to influence my treatment, regardless of the science... I think patients do have a right
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