Boundary Wars: Intimacy and Distance in Healing Relationships

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Summary: Boundary Wars: Intimacy and Distance in Healing Relationshi
Review: Katherine Ragsdale succeeds in her goal of "keeping the conversation going" regarding what constitutes ethical interpersonal boundaries in therapist-client and pastoral counselor-parishioner relationships. Chapters include viewpoints of psychologists, psychotherapists, theolgians, and clerics, with all viewpoints expressing varying feminist perspectives. Because contributors present very different ideas about what is or is not ethical in regard to interpersonal boundries, Ragsdale's book is both provocative and stimulating, leaving the professional to answer for oneself, how one will conduct oneself with clients and/or parishioners.

Rating:
Summary: Boundary Wars: Intimacy and Distance in Healing Relationshi
Review: Katherine Ragsdale succeeds in her goal of "keeping the conversation going" regarding what constitutes ethical interpersonal boundaries in therapist-client and pastoral counselor-parishioner relationships. Chapters include viewpoints of psychologists, psychotherapists, theolgians, and clerics, with all viewpoints expressing varying feminist perspectives. Because contributors present very different ideas about what is or is not ethical in regard to interpersonal boundries, Ragsdale's book is both provocative and stimulating, leaving the professional to answer for oneself, how one will conduct oneself with clients and/or parishioners.