Values and Ethics in the Practice of Psychotherapy and Counselling

by Palmer Diana, Rudol Barnes Jr, Fiona Palmer Barnes

Overview

Addresses the aspects of the value system in which therapists are situated. This book explores the key issues through the experience of the contributors, each of whom is well known in this field. It deals with different aspects of the psychotherapist's work, beginning with the general underlying principles, continuing through matters of technique.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780335204755
Publisher:	Open University Press
Publication date:	01/07/2001
Pages:	242
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.51(d)

Table of Contents

Notes on editors and contributors
Foreword
Introduction
Ethical principles
Psychotherapy as the practice of ethics
Responsible involvement
ethical dimensions of collegial responsibility
Assessment
for what? for whom?
Erotics and ethics
the passionate dilemmas of the therapeutic couple
Ethics and values in our practice
impasse in psychotherapy and organizations
Success and failure
Values and ethics in researching psychotherapy
Complexities of practice
psychotherapy in the real world
The sanctum, the citadel and the souk
confidentiality and paradox
The private face and the public face of psychotherapy
Beyond psychotherapy
beyond ethics?
And if not now, when?
spirituality, psychotherapy and politics
Index.

Editorial Reviews

A baker's dozen of "conversations" by UK-based psychotherapists of mostly psychoanalytic orientation explore the conscious and unconscious aspects of their professional value systems. Barnes, a UK Jungian training analyst with a private practice, and Murdin, who taught at the Open U. and has been involved in psychoanalytic training, introduce issues involved in clinical practice with patients of diverse needs and backgrounds while adhering to personal principles, professional philosophy, and legal requirements. Issues discussed include responsibility for colleagues' behavior, confidentiality, erotic transference, and transformative politics. Distributed in the US by Francis & Taylor. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR