Therapists at Risk
Subtitle: Perils of the Intimacy of the Therapeutic Relationship
Publisher: Jason Aronson; J. Aronson
Published: September 28, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781568218274
Subjects: Medical ethics; Psychotherapy; Psychiatry - General; Psychiatric Ethics; Psychology; Reference; Health/Fitness; Psychology & Psychiatry / General; Legal status, laws, etc; Job stress; Malpractice; Professional ethics; Psychotherapists
Description: Dr. Hedges and his co-authors highlight the leading ethical and legal dilemmas in therapy today, the management of malpractice exposure, the nature of memories and recovered memories and the causes of real and perceived abuse, the trauma of psychotic transference and how to acknowledge and deal safely with sexuality, the plight of the accused therapist and his/her response to the attendant stress, and the nightmare of legal claims and suits and the importance of support for the therapist.

This book seeks to help clarify the issues, manage the dangers, and restore confidence in the psychotherapy process for clinicians who are experiencing fear, constriction, and loss of satisfaction in their work.