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Record Nr.

UNINA9910966177803321

Autore

Holmes Jeremy

Titolo

The Values of Psychotherapy / / by Jeremy Holmes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, , [2018]

©1998

ISBN

0-429-92268-X

0-429-90845-8

0-429-48368-6

1-282-90044-7

9786612900440

1-84940-249-3

Edizione

[Rev. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 p.)

Collana

Studies in bioethics

Disciplina

616.89/14

Soggetti

Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy - Moral and ethical aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION TO THE REVISED EDITION; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE Taking psychotherapy seriously; CHAPTER TWO The case against psychotherapy; CHAPTER THREE Is psychotherapy a luxury?; CHAPTER FOUR The unjust distribution of psychotherapy; CHAPTER FIVE The social role of psychotherapy; CHAPTER SIX The therapeutic relationship: ethical implications of transference; CHAPTER SEVEN Moral dilemmas within psychotherapy; CHAPTER EIGHT Psychotherapists: servants of two masters?; CHAPTER 9 Ethical codes and codes of practice in psychotherapy

CHAPTER TEN Psychotherapy: the makings of a professionCHAPTER ELEVEN Epilogue: the future of psychotherapy; GLOSSARY; REFERENCES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This first-class book provides an unrivalled basis for further discussion on to how to make psychotherapy more effective both, ethically and professionally. Above all, psychotherapy is a moral practice. However



scientific its research, or however much scientific research is demanded of it, psychotherapy remains a practice born of moral dilemmas, of how we live together, each with the other..Above all, the book is a plea to accept psychotherapy as a profession.