Ethics of Caring Table of Contents

Foreword by Jack Kornfield

Preface

Chapter 1 - An Ethic of Relationship

• Honoring the web of life
  
• What is ethics?
  
• Moving toward wholeness
  
• Ethics in the context of profound work with clients
  
• What is ethical behavior?
  
• Ethical development requires transcendence

• What is a nonordinary state of consciousness?
  
• Clients in ordinary states of consciousness
  
• Nonordinary states in ordinary therapy
  
• Spontaneously occurring nonordinary states of consciousness
  
• Inducing nonordinary states therapeutically
  
• The role of awareness of client and therapist in nonordinary states

• Categories of ethical issues
  
• Ethics common to all work with clients
  
• Ethical issues pertaining specifically to clients in nonordinary states
  
• Using an expanded therapeutic paradigm
  
• The need for special competencies in the therapist
  
• Safe setting needs
  
• Close attention to set and setting
  
• Greater client suggestibility
  
• Greater client security needs
  
• Informed consent issues
  
• Understanding a regressed client's primary language
  
• Physical touch issues in the therapeutic relationship
  
• Integrating profound experiences
  
• Cognitive dissonance
  
• Somatic or psychospiritual crisis
  
• Client's needs for nurturing, sexual contact, and spiritual connection
  
• Subtle and compelling countertransference issues

• The model and its metaphors
  
• The concept of right relationship

• Money-The first center
  
• Countertransference-Spiritual longings and fears related to money, change, and security
  
• Countertransference-Personal desires and fears related to money, change, and security
  
• Transference related to money, change, and security
  
• Using the energy of money, change, and security appropriately
  
• Self-reflection on money, change, and security
  
• Cross-referencing money, change, and security with issues in other centers

• Sex-The second center
  
• Countertransference-Spiritual longings and fears related to sex
  
• Countertransference-Personal desires and fears related to sex
  
• Transference related to sex
  
• Using the energy of sex appropriately
  
• Self-reflection on sex
  
• Cross-referencing sex issues with issues in other centers

• Power-The third center
  
• Countertransference-Spiritual longings and fears related to power
  
• Countertransference-Personal desires and fears related to power
  
• Transference related to power
  
• Using the energy of power appropriately
  
• Self-reflection on power
  
• Cross-referencing power with issues in other centers

• Love-The fourth center
  
• Countertransference-Spiritual longings and fears related to love
  
• Countertransference-Personal desires and fears related to love
  
• Transference related to love
  
• Using the energy of love appropriately
  
• Self-reflection on love
  
• Cross-referencing love issue with issues in other centers

• Truth-The fourth center
  
• Countertransference-Spiritual longings and fears related to truth
  
• Countertransference-Personal desires and fears related to truth
  
• Transference related to truth
  
• Using the energy of truth appropriately
  
• Self-reflection on truth
  
• Cross-referencing truth issues with issues in other centers

• Insight-The sixth center
  
• Countertransference-Spiritual longings and fears related to insight
  
• Countertransference-Personal desires and fears related to insight
  
• Transference related to insight
  
• Using the energy of insight appropriately
  
• Self-reflection on insight
  
• Cross-referencing insight with issues in other centers

• Oneness-The seventh center
  
• Countertransference-Spiritual longings and fears related to oneness
  
• Countertransference-Personal desires and fears related to oneness
  
• Transference related to oneness
  
• Using the energy of oneness appropriately
  
• Self-reflection on oneness
  
• Cross-referencing oneness with issues in other centers

• Disregard for the client
  
• Caregiver burnout
  
• Ignorance of the pitfalls
  
• Underestimation of the power of nonordinary states of consciousness (and transference) to affect us
  
• Our unexamined personal issues (countertransference)
  
• Our unacknowledged longing (countertransference) for love and spiritual connection

• Authentic caring
  
• Willingness to examine our own motivations
  
• Willingness to tell the truth
  
• Telling the truth to ourselves
  
• Telling the truth to ourselves about our defense mechanisms
  
• Telling the truth to our peers
  
• Telling the truth to clients
  
• Willingness to ask for help (consultation) and to learn
  
• The aftermath of ethical misconduct
  
• Strategies for preventing misconduct

• Incentives for ethical community
  
• Truth-telling and organizational integrity
  
• "Leader of a movement" syndrome
  
• Organizational support of personal growth for practitioners
  
• Uniting to defend the ethics and efficacy of a particular system
  
• Human response to ethics problems

• Expanding ethical consciousness through written codes
  
• Creating our own inner "ethical codes"