Table of Contents

Introduction. 1. What is the professional therapeutic relationship? 2. Practitioner self awareness. 3. Boundaries. 4. Communication skills. 5. Power in the therapeutic relationship. 6. Touch in the therapeutic relationship. 7. Sex and the erotic in the therapeutic relationship. 8. Psychotherapy and the therapeutic relationship. 9. Working with vulnerable clients. Summary. References. Recommended Reading. Index.

About the Author

Su Fox is a massage and craniosacral therapist, psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice in London and an assessor for The Massage Training Institute. She is co-author, with Darien Pritchard, of Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology for the Massage Therapist and author of Practical Pathology for Massage (both published by Corpus Publishing Limited).

Reviews

Everyone will take something away from this book that will change the way they practise for the better...A valuable tool, this book can be easily read either in its totality or by isolated chapters, as the needs arises.