Behind Closed Doors: Gender, Sexuality, and Touch in the Doctor/Patient Relationship
"Behind Closed Doors is a timely book that examines the doctor/patient relationship in the context of gender, sexuality and touch. The author presents guidelines that can help any doctor or other health care practioner to understand themselves and their patients better and to promote good patient care as well as to protect themselves. This book has great practical value by presenting the reader with a comprehensive set of questionnaires which can be used by doctors, patients and/or office staff to have a close look at what is going on in the doctor/patient interaction." Jeanette Hofstee Milgrow, Former Director of Consultation and Training at Walk-In Counseling, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Author, Boundaries in Professional Relationships: A Training Manual - "A wise, extremely well-informed, incisive and eminently practical guide to safely navigating through the problems of sexuality and the threat of sexual exploitation in health care relationships -- including healing practices that require intimate touching. All practitioners, as well as their patients and clients, should be better able to keep themselves safe after reading this book." Peter Rutter, M.D., author of Sex in the Forbidden Zone and Unterstanding and Preventing Sexual Harrasment--This text refers to an alternateHardcoveredition.