Ethics

• ETHICS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY by GRIGORIS VASSILIADES, 11/23/98
  
  

Hello Grigoris: I hope you get some answers to your query. We have some pretty specific ethical canons in the U.S.A., which are codified in things like the American Psychological Association ethical guidelines. I imagine you could get a copy through their website. I'd interested in how other countries view the things you mentioned, and whether or not U.S. guidelines and expectations are similar to those in, for example, Greece (and elsewhere). I vote for a strong ethical foundation, but we are sometimes pretty rigid (for example, in the case of a colleague who was recently expelled from his professional organization for having a brief affair with a patient over 25 years ago -- he had had an exemplary professional career since then; it came to light when she tried to blackmail him. After the affair, he referred her to another therapist, sought advice from a colleague, and entered therapy himself. That didn't alter the organization's view years later that he had to be publically expelled.). Any comments from readers???

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