The Values of Psychotherapy

by Jeremy Holmes, Richard Lindley

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367104917
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/05/2019
Series:	Studies in Bioethics
Pages:	318
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Foreword , Introduction to the Revised Edition , Preface , Taking psychotherapy seriously , The case against psychotherapy , Is psychotherapy a luxury? , The unjust distribution of psychotherapy , The social role of psychotherapy , The therapeutic relationship: ethical implications of transference , Moral dilemmas within psychotherapy , Psychotherapists: servants of two masters? , Ethical codes and codes of practice in psychotherapy , Psychotherapy: the makings of a profession , Epilogue: the future of psychotherapy

Editorial Reviews

Though most relevant to psychotherapy under the British National Health Service, this volume broaches more universal issues of ethics, social policy role, and professional practices encountered in the therapeutic relationship<-->while resisting the idea of psychotherapy as a secularized religion. False memories is one new issue that has emerged since the original 1989 publication. Distributed in the US by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

"In the current situation of vigorous debate about psychotherapy, its place in the NHS, and the questions of the new profession, this is a necessary and timely book."

British Journal of Psychiatry - Phil Mollon

"As a collaborative volume The Values of Psychotherapy is highly successful….The book is throughout refreshingly free from jargon. It also avoids the self-important seriousness of much psychotherapeutic literature. The issues addressed are serious issues. But they are tackled with a light touch and, in places, considerable humor."

Journal of Applied Philosophy - K.W.M. Fulford

"This most valuable and timely book should be read by all involved in planning and provision of National Health Service psychotherapy. The authors, a medical psychotherapist and a philosopher, combine forces to illuminate the nature of psychotherapy, its social role, and the associated complex scientific and ethical questions."

International Review of Psychiatry - Jane Milton

Reviews of the first edition:

'Psychotherapy is here to stay. This first-class book provides an unrivalled basis for further discussion as to how to make it more effective both ethically and professionally."

The Independent - Anthony Storr

Reviews of the first edition:

'Psychotherapy is here to stay. This first-class book provides an unrivalled basis for further discussion as to how to make it more effective both ethically and professionally."

"This most valuable and timely book should be read by all involved in planning and provision of National Health Service psychotherapy. The authors, a medical psychotherapist and a philosopher, combine forces to illuminate the nature of psychotherapy, its social role, and the associated complex scientific and ethical questions."

"As a collaborative volume The Values of Psychotherapy is highly successful….The book is throughout refreshingly free from jargon. It also avoids the self-important seriousness of much psychotherapeutic literature. The issues addressed are serious issues. But they are tackled with a light touch and, in places, considerable humor."

"In the current situation of vigorous debate about psychotherapy, its place in the NHS, and the questions of the new profession, this is a necessary and timely book."

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