Best Book about Boundaries

[Syntinen Laulu]

I am wondering if there are any good suggestions on books regarding boundaries - perhaps even as it particularly pertains to our trade.

I'm still in school, haven't yet taken the ethics course but I am feeling that I want to explore this topic in advance, at my leisure.

Thanks!

 

[Scocasso !]

The Educated Heart.

 

[BLACKHAWK]

The Psychology of the Body by Elliot Greene and Barbara Goodrich-Dunn

and/or

The Ethics of Caring by Kylea Taylor. The second one was our text for ethics class. It's subtitle is Honoring the Web of Life in Our Professional Healing Relationships and deals with boundaries as they are related to the chakras.

 

[fat_arsehole]

I have not read The Ethics of Touch... does anyone else have a review of it?

 

[Texas Patriot]

I really enjoyed The Educated Heart - here is my review article http://massage-schools-training.suite101.com/article.cfm/professional_boundaries_in_massage

I've never read any of the others but I'll definitely have to check them out.

Angela

 

[HolidayOnTheBuses]

Thank you all!

I had heard of The Educated Heart, but not of the others.

 

[TAHA]

I read the Ethics of Touch. Just off the top of my head - I thought it was very thorough. Sometimes excessively so, but then when you think about it, a lot of people are completely lacking knowledge in these realms, so it can be good to beat a dead horse, so to speak. I know I benefited from some of the wordiness. They had good real life examples given.

I thought at times they were a bit restrictive and narrow in their interpretations, yet at the same time they repeated over and over that each person has to figure out their own ethics and that not all ethical dilemnas have a cut and dry answer -- in fact, most don't.

I did like their section on boundaries and dual-relationships a lot.

I did a 4 hour at home study course with this book for my ethics CEUs. It was inexpensive, easy to do, yet thought-provoking enough to be engaging, and did everything through email, which I really appreciated.

 

[Pompal 09.]

I like Educated Heart too but also The Psychology of the Body by Elliott Green and Ethics for Massage Therapists by Terrie Yardley-Nohr

The first one really gets more into understanding transference/countertransference and how it is the transference that actually heals but it requires that the therapist have clear boundaries.

Julie