Values and Ethics in the Practice of Psychotherapy and Counselling

by Palmer Barnes, Fiona

• ISBN13: 9780335204755
• ISBN10: 0335204759
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: Open University Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Fiona Palmer Barnes (FBAC, BA) is a training analyst for the Association of Jungian Analysts and works in private practice in Herefordshire and London. She is also a professional member of the Severnside Institute for Psychotherapy and the Foundation of Psychotherapy and Counselling and chairs the Ethics Committee of UKCP. She is the author of Complaints and Grievances in Psychotherapy, published in 1998 by Routledge.

Lesley Murdin taught for the Open University and in the United States. She trained in psychoanalytic psychotherapy at WPF Counselling and Psychotherapy and now runs their training. She has been chair of the Psychoanalytic Section of UKCP and of its Ethics Committee. She is the author of How much is Enough? published in 2000 by Routledge.

Table of Contents

Notes on editors and contributors	ix
Acknowledgements	xiii
Foreword	xv
Jeremy Holmes
Introduction	1	(5)
Fiona Palmer Barnes
Lesley Murdin
Ethical principles	6	(17)
Richard Rowson
Psychotherapy as the practice of ethics	23	(9)
Del Loewenthal
Robert Snell
Responsible involvement: ethical dimensions of collegial responsibility	32	(18)
Petruska Clarkson
Assessment --- for what? for whom?	50	(13)
Josephine Klein
Erotics and ethics: the passionate dilemmas of the therapeutic couple	63	(19)
David Mann
Ethics and values in our practice: impasse in psychotherapy and organizations	82	(18)
Fiona Palmer Barnes
Success and failure	100	(12)
Lesley Murdin
Values and ethics in researching psychotherapy	112	(16)
Georgia Lepper
Complexities of practice: psychotherapy in the real world	128	(16)
Mark Aveline
The sanctum, the citadel and the souk: confidentiality and paradox	144	(19)
Jan Wiener
The private face and the public face of psychotherapy	163	(14)
Edward Martin
Beyond psychotherapy --- beyond ethics?	177	(15)
Mary Anne Coate
And if not now, when? Spirituality, psychotherapy, politics	192	(15)
Andrew Samuels
Index	207