Description
Book SynopsisThis book presents the latest data on—and clinical, ethical, and medicolegal issues pertaining to—sexual intimacy in the professional relationship. Contributors (including psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, clergy, and attorneys) explore the issue of professional incest across the broad spectrum of the helping professions.
Table of ContentsPrevalence of psychiatrist-patient sexual contact. Sex between patient and therapist: psychology's data and response. Sexual contacts between social workers and their clients. Therapist-patient sex syndrome: a guide for attorneys and subsequent therapists to assessing damage. The seduction of the female patient. The lovesick therapist. Individual psychotherapy for victims of therapist-patient sexual intimacy. An example of group therapy for victims of therapist-client sexual intimacy. Sexual intimacies after termination: clinical, ethical, and legal aspects. Rehabilitation of therapists who have been sexually intimate with a patient. Sexual exploitation by sex therapists. Sexual involvement between psychiatric hospital staff and their patients. Teacher-student sexual intimacy. Sexual boundary violations of clergy. Sexual contact in fiduciary relationships. Medicolegal aspects of professional sexual exploitation. Afterword. References.
