Values and ethics in the practice of psychotherapy and counselling / edited by Fiona Palmer Barnes and Lesley Murdin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Jeremy Holmes -- Introduction / Fiona Palmer Barnes, Lesley Murdin -- Ethical principles / Richard Rowson -- Psychotherapy as the practice of ethics / Del Loewenthal, Robert Snell -- Responsible involvement: ethical dimensions of collegial responsibility / Petruska Clarkson -- Assessment -- for what? for whom? / Josephine Klein -- Erotics and ethics: the passionate dilemmas of the therapeutic couple / David Mann -- Ethics and values in our practice: impasse in psychotherapy and organizations / Fiona Palmer Barnes -- Success and failure / Lesley Murdin -- Values and ethics in researching psychotherapy / Georgia Lepper -- Complexities of practice: psychotherapy in the real world / Mark Aveline -- The sanctum, the citadel and the souk: confidentiality and paradox / Jan Wiener -- The private face and the public face of psychotherapy / Edward Martin -- Beyond psychotherapy -- beyond ethics? / Mary Anne Coate -- And if not now, when? Spirituality, psychotherapy, politics / Andrew Samuels.

"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."--Publisher description.

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