Values And Ethics In The Practice Of Psychotherapy and Counselling

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.

The work of every school of psychotherapy and every therapist is inevitably structured by a value system and requires codes of ethics and practice. This book addresses the conscious and unconscious aspects of the value system in which therapists are situated. Values and Ethics in the Practice of Psychotherapy and Counselling explores the central issues through the experience of the contributors, each of whom is well known in this field. Each chapter will raise questions for the reader which will stimulate individual thinking about practice or can form a basis for discussion and debate for training or graduate groups. The book is firmly rooted in practice. Each chapter deals with a different aspect of the psychotherapist's work beginning with the general underlying principles, continuing through matters of technique and on to contextual issues. Finally the book moves to the outer world, politics and spirituality as ways of connecting inner and outer, social and individual. The arrangement of chapters allows for flexibility and creativity while providing a coherent structure.

Values and Ethics in the Practice of Psychotherapy and Counselling is recommended reading for psychotherapists, psychoanalysts and counsellors in training and practice.