"Not always sexual, but what are the boundries?" You say not always sexual "BUT" what are the boundaries. Why the "but"? What question to you have about boundaries? "How close is to close?" G.R.: If one thinks first of the patient's need for greater autonomy and that the therapy is a transition period to discuss the problems associated with the patient's moving on to another place with greater autonomy and personality integration, then "too close" is anything that draws the patient emotionally so close to a therapist that the closeness interferes, rather than facilitates, the patient's emerging autonomy. "Too close" refers to actions on the part of the therapist that stimulate the patient to feel more inclined (than the patient may already feel) to "need" the therapist for things other than discussions that help the patient be more autonomous. ........... "Should a counselor always be a step higher than his G.R.: What does "a step higher" mean? Equal how? Obviously the two are not equal in some important ways or else one would not be paying the other for therapy services and both would be telling one another their personal problems. .......... "I am having a problem with this. Would someone be so kind to fill me in or direct me to some books or journal articles?" G.R.: Alan Keith Lucas: Giving and Taking Help. Michael Kahn: Between Therapist and Client. Herbert Strean: Resolving Counterresistances in Therapy. Herbert Strean: Therapists Who Have Sex With Their Patients: Treatment and Recovery. Dorothea S. McArthur: Birth of a Self in Adulthood .............
G.R. Not ALWAYS sexual? Does this mean sometimes sexual? I hope not. Therapists discuss sexual issues responsibly when necessary and with all due respect for the patient's needs first and foremost (as opposed to the therapist's needs). But other than responsible discussion, the relationship is NEVER sexual.
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client or should the counselor see his client as equal?"
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