In this edited volume, the real dialogue begins. Therapists
speak openly and honestly about their self-disclosure practices,
decisions and clinical dilemmas. Bloomgarden and Mennuti bring
together research, training and tales from their clinical
experience to illuminate lessons derived from their own journeys
toward judicious, balanced self-disclosure practices. In a readable
fashion, the stories highlight a variety of self-disclosure and
boundary issues that occur in the course of psychotherapy. Numerous
treatment modalities and clinical orientations are represented.
The collective wisdom offered through these stories, which
includes suggested guidelines and a standard of care for good
practice, will assist the reader in developing a better
understanding of what it means to self-disclose appropriately,
recognizing a flexible middle ground between "too much" and "too
little" along with responsiveness to client need. The Freudian
based taboo that rigidly warns against all self-disclosure is
antiquated, and a more reasonable, balanced perspective is under
way. As a psychotherapeutic community, including psychologists,
social workers, art therapists, counselors, dance/movement
therapists who are all represented in this book, it is time to talk
openly about a balanced, judicious, and therapeutically appropriate
approach to self-disclosure and boundaries. Bravely, that is
exactly what the authors in this book have done.
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