As a side bar to this discussion, I once knew a psychotherapist who really blurred the therapeutic boundaries with one particular client to the point where the therapeutic relationship ended up closer to resembling a big sister- little sister relationship than any psychotherapy relationship. It got to the point where the client ended up knowing most of the intimate personal details of the psychotherapists life. The therapist even got the client involved in her new born child’s life by allowing the client to hold her therapists new born baby. Not only did this completely destroy the therapeutic relationship but also caused many other problems too neurmous to go into. When all was said and done and without going into detail, the blurring of these therapeutic boundaries (and some other ethical factors) caused much psychological distress for the client and a few other people along the way. In short, it is so very important for psychotherapists to be well educated and informed as to what are appropriate therapeutic boundaries and what can and can not be said (and done) in a therapeutic setting.
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