Reviews

Sara Wright, Ph.D.:

I want to highly recommend Kylea's book, The Ethics of Caring. It is truly in a class by itself in the literature on ethics in therapy. I've read many books in this area and have been on a Board responsible for reviewing and approving the code of ethics for a large professional association, the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapists (AAMFT), and, to my knowledge, Kylea's book is unique in the field. It combines the rigors of professionalism with a deep and complex understanding of the human heart, soul and mind. It really is an important book. If you are a professor or teacher you might want to consider it as required reading.

- Sara Wright, Ph.D.
Licensed Psychologist
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
Board Member, American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT)
Past-President, Minnesota Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (MAMFT) 7/8/02

Judy Harrow:

Each one of the "helping professions" has its own professional organization and its own professional code of ethics. There are books written to help counselors and therapists understand these codes and apply them to perplexing situations. Most such books read like legal casebooks. The idea is to help us avoid the consequences of code infractions: professional sanctions or even lawsuits. The code itself is not to be questioned, just applied. That is certainly important information for professional practitioners who want to keep their licenses and avoid liability suits. But it's not the whole story. We need to think about avoiding harm to clients and ourselves, of course. But it's surely at least as important to think about how to go beyond what is proper or legal to what is best. Taylor's approach does this. She's not satisfied with just avoiding preventable problems. Her goal, instead, is to help her readers create and maintain "right relationship" with their clients. She's also concerned to help practitioners develop an internal locus of control, a strong personal sense of wise, kind and helpful ways to work with people, an ethic of care instead of rules.

Because of this, you won't find dogmatic judgmental statements in this book. Instead, Taylor takes a nuanced and compassionate approach. By understanding how good people become confused about what they should or should not do, we are both warned and strengthened. Her chapters on money, sex and power contain some of the most insightful discussions of these complex issues that I have ever seen.

- Judy Harrow, Reviewer
June 2002 Newsletter of the New Jersey Association for Spiritual, Ethical and Religious Values in Counseling

Jack Kornfield, Ph.D.:

The Ethics of Caring is an extraordinarily helpful and groundbreaking new book for healers, clergy, therapists, and bodyworkers that illuminates what is necessary to offer wise and trustworthy relations to their clients. The Ethics of Caring alerts healers not to underestimate the power of energies that arise in nonordinary states through transference and countertransference, and the palpable physical, emotional, and psychic vulnerabilities that come in these states.

- Jack Kornfield, Ph.D, author of After the Ecstacy, The Laundry, A Path with Heart
From his Foreword in The Ethics of Caring

Stanislav Grof, M.D., Ph.D:

Serious ethical considerations represent an important aspect of any therapeutic endeavor. The work with non-ordinary states of consciousness brings specific new challenges and problems that go beyond those encountered in traditional verbal and experiential approaches. Kylea Taylor's book, The Ethics of Caring, is a pioneering venture into these new territories, providing important guidelines for practitioners and students.

- Stanislav Grof, M.D., Ph.D, author of The Future of Psychology, The Holotropic Mind, The Adventure of Self-Discovery, Beyond the Brain, Realms of the Human Unconscious and co-author of The Stormy Search for Self.

, Ph.D

This is a wonderful resource book that can be an invaluable professional guide for maintaining ethics and integrity within the helping professions.

- Angeles Arrien, Ph.D, author of The Four-Fold Way, and The Tarot Handbook.