ABSTRACT
This book offers a detailed and compelling story of dual and multiple role relationships in counselling and psychotherapy. It breaks new ground in offering sustained narrative on practitioner and client experiences of being in dual and multiple role relationships. At this stage, it is important to clarify what I mean by dual relationship. I de®ne it here as:
a one-to-one contracted therapy relationship between an individual in the role of `client' and one in the role of `therapist' which then overlaps into a non-therapy context or role. The overlapping contact occurs while there is a current therapy relationship, or before the therapy relationship is formed, or beyond its cessation. The non-therapy contact is friendship, social, sexual, collegial, ®nancial or business oriented.
