Psychiatria pre prax 1/2014
Ethics and psychotherapy
Ethical theory and reflection can be applied to both the theory and practice of psychotherapy. Ethics and psychotherapy have a natural affinity. The practice of psychotherapy deals with human problems, dilemmas and emotions that are related to both one’s own values and other people’s values. Philosophical reflection in itself is not an adequate basis for psychotherapy ethics, but it does facilitate impartial examination of the assumptions that are commonly made in psychotherapy, psychiatry and health care.
Keywords: ethics, psychotherapy, transference, counter-transference.
