The Ethics of Caring

Table of Contents

foreword by Jack Kornfield
Preface
  1. An Ethic of Relationship
    • Honoring the Web of Life
    • What is Ethics?
    • Moving Toward Wholeness
    • Ethics in the Context of Profound Work with Clients
    • What is Ethical Behavior?
    • Ethical Development Requires Transcendence

  2. Profound and Intense Client Experiences
    • What is a Nonordinary State of Consciousness?
    • Clients in Ordinary States of Consciousness
    • Nonordinary States in Ordinary Therapy
    • Spontaneously Occuring Nonordinary States of Consciousness
    • Inducing Nonordinary States Therapeutically
    • The Role of Awareness of Client and Therapist in Nonordinary States

  3. The Special Needs of Clients in Nonordinary States of Consciousness
    • Categories of Ethical Issues
    • Ethics Common to all Work with Clients
    • Ethical Issues Pertaining Specifically to Clients in Nonordinary States
    • Using an Expanded Therapeutic Paradigm
    • The Need for Special Competencies in the Therapist
    • Safe Setting Needs
    • Close Attention to Set and Setting
    • Greater Client Suggestibility
    • Greater Client Security Needs
    • Informed Consent Issues
    • Understanding a Regressed Client's Primary Language
    • Physical Touch Issues in the Therapeutic Relationship
    • Integrating Profound Experiences
    • Cognitive Dissonance
    • Somatic or Psychospiritual Crisis
    • Client's Needs for Nurturing, Sexual Contact, and Spiritual Connection
    • Subtle and Compelling Countertransference Issues

  4. A Model for Examining Our Vulnerabilities
    • The Model and its Metaphors
    • The Concept of Right Relationships

  5. Money
    • Money - The First Center
    • Countertransference - Spiritual Longings and Fears Related to Money, Change, and Security
    • Countertransference - Personal Desires and Fears Related to Money, Change, and Security
    • Transference Related to Money, Change, and Security
    • Using the Energy of Money, Change, and Security Appropriately
    • Self-Reflection on Money, Change, and Security
    • Cross-Referencing Money, Change, and Security with Issues in Other Centers

  6. Sex
    • Sex - The Second Center
    • Countertransference - Spiritual Longings and Fears Related to Sex
    • Countertransference - Personal Desires and Fears Related to Sex
    • Transference Related to Sex
    • Using the Energy of Sex Appropriately
    • Self-Reflection on Sex
    • Cross-Referencing Sex Issues With Issues in Other Centers

  7. Power
    • Power - The Third Center
    • Countertransference - Spiritual Longings and Fears Related to Power
    • Countertransference - Personal Desires and Fears Related to Power
    • Transference Related to Power
    • Using the Energy of Power Appropriately
    • Self-Reflection on Power
    • Cross-Referencing Power With Issues in Other Centers

  8. Love
    • Love - The Fourth Center
    • Countertransference - Spiritual Longings and Fears Related to Love
    • Countertransference - Personal Desires and Fears Related to Love
    • Transference Related to Love
    • Using the Energy of Love Appropriately
    • Self-Reflection on Love
    • Cross-Referencing Love With Issues in Other Centers

  9. Truth
    • Truth - The Third Center
    • Countertransference - Spiritual Longings and Fears Related to Truth
    • Countertransference - Personal Desires and Fears Related to Truth
    • Transference Related to Truth
    • Using the Energy of Truth Appropriately
    • Self-Reflection on Truth
    • Cross-Referencing Truth Issues With Issues in Other Centers

  10. Insight - The Third Center
    • Countertransference - Spiritual Longings and Fears Related to Insight
    • Countertransference - Personal Desires and Fears Related to Insight
    • Transference Related to Insight
    • Using the Energy of Insight Appropriately
    • Self-Reflection on Insight
    • Cross-Referencing Insight With Issues in Other Centers

  11. Oneness
    • Oneness - The Third Center
    • Countertransference - Spiritual Longings and Fears Related to Oneness
    • Countertransference - Personal Desires and Fears Related to Oneness
    • Transference Related to Oneness
    • Using the Energy of Oneness Appropriately
    • Self-Reflection on Oneness
    • Cross-Referencing Oneness With Issues in Other Centers

  12. Vulnerabilities to Unethical Behavior
    • Disregard for the Client
    • Caregiver Burnout
    • Ignorance of the Pitfalls
    • Underestimation of the Power of Nonordinary States of Consciousness (and Transference) to Affect Us
    • Our Unexamined Personal Issues (Countertransference)
    • Our Unacknowledged Longing (countertransference) for Love and Spiritual Connection
  13. Keys to Professional Ethical Behavior
    • Authentic Caring
    • Willingness to Examine Our Own Motivations
    • Willingness to Tell the Truth
    • Telling the Truth to Ourselves
    • Telling the Truth to Ourselves About Our Defense Mechanisms
    • Telling the Truth to Our Peers
    • Telling the Truth to Our Clients
    • Willingness to Ask for Help (consultation) and to Learn
    • The Aftermath of Ethical Misconduct
    • Strategies for Preventing Misconduct

  14. Expanding Ethical Consciousness in Community
    • Incentives for Ethical Community
    • Truth-telling and Organizational Integrity
    • "Leader of a Movement" Syndrome
    • Organizational Support of Personal Growth for Practitioners
    • Uniting to Defend the Ethics and Efficacy of a Particular System
    • Human Response to Ethics Problems

  15. Creating Ethical Guidelines
    • Expanding Ethical Consciousness Through Written Codes
    • Creating Our Own Inner "Ethical Codes"
Glossary
End Notes
Bibliography
Index

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