The Values of Psychotherapy

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.

Jeremy Holmes

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