We now live at the end of privacy. The Internet has transformed how we archive our personal lives. Our words and habits are tracked, shared, and sold. It is no longer possible to disseminate case study knowledge with the assurance that only those with specific professional or disciplinary interests will use it. And when we publish, it is impossible to assure confidentiality. In this session, we will explore what the end of privacy means for the psychoanalytic case study. The panelists will consider how the standard methods of disguise, composite, and informed consent constrain our use of the case study for knowledge production. In this roundtable, panelists address the end of privacy by introducing a new framework for print and web-based knowledge dissemination: the humanistic case study.

This roundtable has been organized by Jerry Floersch and Jeff Longhofer. Ann Jureric and I will join the discussion.