The Educated Heart: Professional Guidelines for Massage Therapists, Bodyworkers and Movement Teachers [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Nina McIntosh (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 2003 | ISBN-10: 096741220X | ISBN-13: 978-0967412207 | Edition: 1st

"The Educated Heart" is destined to become the classic on professional and ethical boundaries in the manual therapies. It is a delightful, indispensable guide for every practitioner and student of the manual therapies. This groundbreaking work demystifies the crucial but under-examined issue of professional boundariesbringing both humanity and humor to the intricacies of shaping an integrity-based practice. "The Educated Heart" includes: "red flags" that signal potential boundary problems, compassionate insights into everyday professional challenges, real-life examples illustrating common pitfalls and helpful strategies, and step-by-step guidelines for making ethical decisions. Also features the wonderful cartoon illustrations of Mari Gayatri Stein.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"This long-needed work is a companion for the journey...fascinating and lively."

Illustrations by Mari Gayatri Stein are "witty and charming...artful little gems." -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D.; Author of "Women Who Run With the Wolves," "The Gift of Story," and "The Faithful Gardener."

This long-needed work is a companion for the journey . . . fascinating and lively. Illustrations by Mari Gayatri Stein are witty and charming . . . artful little gems. -- Clarissa Pinkola Ests, Ph.D.-Author of "Women Who Run With the Wolves", "The Gift of Story" and "The Faithful Gardener".

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The Educated Heart is a delightful, indispensable guide for every practitioner and student of the manual therapies. For the first time, this groundbreaking work demystifies the crucial but under-examined issue of professional boundaries-bringing both humanity and humor to the intricacies of shaping an integrity-bases practice. The Educated Heart includes: "red flags" that signal potential boundary problems, compassionate insights into everyday professional challenges, real-life examples illustrating common pitfalls and helpful strategies, step-by-step guidelines for making ethical decisions.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 248 pages
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Publishers; 1st edition (February 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 096741220X
• ISBN-13: 978-0967412207
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #601,224 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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26 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply the Best, September 11, 2001

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Gyata Stormon (Cazenovia, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Educated Heart: Professional Guidelines for Massage Therapists, Bodyworkers and Movement Teachers (Paperback)

When I tell people that I'm a massage student, the predictable response is: "Think of me if you need anyone to practice on...". As I observe my desk piled high with books and search my schedule in vain for a free hour to massage my husband, this seems like the dumbest/most insensitive thing anyone could possibly say to me.
The Educated Heart deals with issues such as these: of boundaries as a massage student and how to approach people that are reluctant to pay the full price for massage therapy. In fact, this easy-to-read book is packed with insights and simple explanations of complex concepts (e.g. dual relationships, projection). If I had just one book in my massage collection, it would be this. I recommend it be required reading in every massage school.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Every School, Every Practitioner!!, August 2, 2004

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reader "reader" - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Educated Heart: Professional Guidelines for Massage Therapists, Bodyworkers and Movement Teachers (Paperback)

This is a must read, no matter what level a practitioner
is at- student, beginner, or, like me, in the field for
over a dozen years. A wonderfully, sensitively written
book about relationship dynamics in touch therapies, from someone who truly has walked the path we are all going to walk if we are involved in touch therapies, manual therapies, bodywork,
massage. I was fortunate to have some of this type of
training , in a very good way, when in schools, but I know
very well that it is rare, and getting more rare for schools
to provide these important insights. I know this because I teach the graduates of those schools, and sometimes receive work from those graduates. This, to me, is much more important than simply reading about "ethics", because a deeper understanding of relationship dynamics truly helps us form and understand our ethics in the first place. This is must-have insight for all schools to delve into,and provide ample training in- including the medical profession! If your work involves touch in a therapeutic way, read this book!
5 stars for this contribution to the field!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars at last, ethical guidelines to body work, January 24, 2000

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ellen rolfes (Oxford, MS) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Educated Heart: Professional Guidelines for Massage Therapists, Bodyworkers and Movement Teachers (Paperback)

At last, a professional wrote ethical guidelines for bodyworkers. Her sense of humor, candid stories and writing style add to the author's invaluable advise to practioners who "touch" many, many people everyday. Thank you, Nina!