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dascallie:
Looks like I'm in minority but I don't see how it's is unethical to describe case studies (in this case, psychic readings) when there is no identifying names or places.
We learn in this world by observing, watching outcomes, examples of others.
All the self-help books contain case studies of real people with excruciatingly detailed scenarios.
But their identifications are either aliases like Sarah M, or 'Patient A', 'Client S', etc
It's information. It's the way life rolls---observing, reading about others--as well of course, our own direct experience--is how we learn, how we discern. Some of it is junk, some of it is useful---some of it we may see ourselves in, and it can be helpful getting that wake up call.
I think jumping on this person as unethical makes zero sense.
She's giving you a view into the human psyche as she has experiences it as a psychic. I think it's pretty enlightening. To me that's worth hearing about--lest I recognize myself--I may be motivated to discern between hopeful optimism and obsessive, destructive denial.
dascallie:
I have a psychiatrist friend and he will frequently describe something a patient said or did---but would he NEVER breath a word of who the patient is. It's called sharing experiences.
According to the standard here (very unrealistic) it's the thought police gone even further off the rails.
Are we all to be muzzled, we cannot even discuss anonymous humans we encounter and their behavior without being called a 'gossip'? It can only be gossip if it is tied to an identifiable or even clearly implied person.
Gossip is when a person--by name--is defamed, harmed, in association with spurious information.
Calling it 'private'---uh, no it's not ---without any identifying data associated with it, it is free, it's public domain. It's people interacting about who and what they encounter.
Might as well ban the telling of the Grimms Fairy Tales...
dascallie:
Why not Prof?
This is LIFE --we are living it --here and now--and many, many here share feelings, thoughts, pour out their hearts to one another--question each other---it's actually the MOST natural place to discuss 'case studies".
You'd have to torture logic pretty severely to rationalize the banning of discussing real life human behavior ---when everybody here is SEEKING ANSWERS.
HornetKick:
It happens a lot more than many of us are aware of. I knew an attorney who would speak about his divorce cases among groups of us just standing around, although he never mentioned anyone's name. We all lived in the same state and he was very open about why the couple was divorcing. Granted, it isn't possible to be too far fetched that I'd even know or run into the divorcee, but don't attorney's have a client-privilege rule, similar to an oath or something? Many of us talked behind that attorney's back in how disgusting we felt he was for talking publicly about a private matter. Really dude?
Fidget1028:
--- Quote from: HornetKick on February 26, 2020, 04:28:19 AM ---It happens a lot more than many of us are aware of. I knew an attorney who would speak about his divorce cases among groups of us just standing around, although he never mentioned anyone's name. We all lived in the same state and he was very open about why the couple was divorcing. Granted, it isn't possible to be too far fetched that I'd even know or run into the divorcee, but don't attorney's have a client-privilege rule, similar to an oath or something? Many of us talked behind that attorney's back in how disgusting we felt he was for talking publicly about a private matter. Really dude?
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Attorney/client privelege, just like HIPAA laws only apply to identifiable information.. You can talk about anything to anyone if the person isn't identified. The argument could be had that some situations could be rare or unique enough that a name isn't needed or so common that it applies to many. Unless it for consultation with another "professional" in the field, it's just unprofessional to gossip. I have many friends who are family therapists. They do talk in general terms, but never about specific cases. They take it more seriously than that. It's also why many of them have their own therapists.
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