Keeping Boundaries: Maintaining Safety and Integrity in the Psychotherapeutic Process [Hardcover]

Richard S. Epstein (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0880486600 | ISBN-13: 978-0880486606 | Publication Date: April 1994 | Edition: 1

Keeping Boundaries is an across-the-board review of the subject of boundary maintenance in psychotherapy. Using a comprehensive approach, this book examines the problem of therapeutic boundaries and boundary violations from multiple viewpoints, including historical antecedents, sociological mechanisms, object relations theory, psychodynamic theory, practical technique, and the mental health and training of psychotherapists. It covers a variety of boundary issues, including dual relationships, informed consent, fees, gifts from patients, maintaining confidentiality, avoiding abuse of power, and helping therapists to protect themselves against exploitive patients. Written in a clear and jargon-free style, this book provides the therapist with practical clinical advice supported by extensive references and clinical vingnettes.

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" "Keeping Boundaries" provides valuable material not only for all mental health residents and other trainees, but also for every medical practitioner. Making a self-assessment by using the Exploitation Index every few years certainly will assist a physician to prevent boundary violations. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure or a million-dollar lawsuit or charges from the Board of Physician Quality Assurance."-- "Straight Forward"

About the Author

Richard S. Epstein, M.D., is a psychiatrist in private practice in Bethesda, Maryland. He is President-Elect of the Washington Psychiatric Society, Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, and Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 328 pages
• Publisher: Amer Psychiatric Pub; 1 edition (April 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0880486600
• ISBN-13: 978-0880486606
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,819,782 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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