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Originally Posted by BudFox
I have never seen any ethics guidelines that contained meaningful protections for clients beyond the obvious. They are official authorization for therapists to do what they please. Carrying out an emotionally abusive relationship is well within guidelines. Therapists are accountable to no one, unless they do something really awful.
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I found that as well. Screaming, bullying, contempt, trying to retain me as a client when the relationship clearly was antagonistic was perfectly fine according to the grievance board who heard my case.
Then when I posted an Amazon review complaining that an narrative ethics book was contemptuous of clients, it caused a little backlash uproar. Instead of provoking the slightest bit of thinking, the therapists all went to their battle stations. And this was the audience for an "ethics" book.