Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #228638 in Books
• Published on: 1995-06
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Jack Kornfield, Ph.D, author of A Path with Heart
The Ethics of Caring is an extraordinarily helpful and groundbreaking new book for healers, clergy, therapists, and bodyworkers that illuminates what is necessary to offer wise and trustworthy relations to their clients. The Ethics of Caring alerts healers not to underestimate the power of energies that arise in nonordinary states through transference and countertransference, and the palpable physical, emotional, and psychic vulnerabilities that come in these states.

Stanislav Grof, M.D., Ph.D, author of The Holotropic Mind, The Adventure of Self-Discovery, Beyond the Brain, Realms of the Human Unconscious and co-author of The Stormy Search for Self
Serious ethical considerations represent an important aspect of any therapeutic endeavor. The work with non-ordinary states of consciousness brings specific new challenges and problems that go beyond those encountered in traditional verbal and experiential approaches. Kylea Taylor's book, The Ethics of Caring, is a pioneering venture into these new territories, providing important guidelines for practitioners and students.

Angeles Arrien, Ph.D, author of The Four-Fold Way
This is a wonderful resource book that can be an invaluable professional guide for maintaining ethics and integrity within the helping professions.

Customer Reviews

Most pallitable ethic book I've read
This book covers a myriad of therapies. The format and scope was very appealing to me. It was not dry like most books I have read on ethics. A must for Complementary and Alternative practitioners.

Comprehensive and visionary
Too often, ethical questions are considered dreary subjects best left to a committee. This book helps us see ethics as integrally related to how we do our work, and to our own personal growth. It also embraces a wide spectrum of consciousness, in a systematic way. It is particularly remarkable for its emphasis on non-ordinary states of consciousness, and how to handle these intense experiences when they occur in our work with clients (whether deliberately induced or occurring spontaneously). The Ethics of Caring will be especially valuable for trainee caregivers, supervisors, clients looking for the appropriate therapist, and any professionals who finds themselves, as we all do from time to time, out of our depth.

Covers many of the ethical issues confronting therapists
This is a very useful tool for any therapist, whether a mainstream counselor or doctor, or practitioners of complementary modalities such as massage. It discusses in plain language the ethical dilemmas we are all confronted by in our daily practice. I particularly appreciated the explanation of a client's vulnerability while in an altered state such as hypnosis or the deep relaxation produced by massage. The author also addresses the vulnerability of the therapist when faced with a client's issues that hook into the therapist's issues, creating a very murky situation indeed. The author assists us to provide appropriate loving care to our clients without violating boundaries.