Main description:

Revised edition. This title is as a wake-up call to take seriously the climate in which mental health professionals practice in which complaints and civil actions against psychotherapists and counsellors are on the increase and to sharpen assessment skills accordingly. It is also designed to help professionals to think about the "therapeutic frame"

Contents:

Preface -- The mirror crack'd -- The therapeutic frame: "Good fences make good neighbours" (Robert Frost) -- Assessment and risk-management -- Love and hate in the in-between -- Working through an impasse -- Where there's smoke there's fire -- The courage to be human: A humanistic approach to conflict resolution -- "Everything's fine here"-or is it? A mirror on our training institutions -- Intimacy, risk, and reciprocity in psychotherapy: Intricate ethical challenges -- Appendix