ABSTRACT
Feminist therapists are concerned with the dilemmas that emerge when the relationship between personal growth and political action becomes salient in therapeutic work. Therapists are often urged to explore their reasons for becoming and remaining helpers. The danger of self-deception is ever present, however, in that therapists may deny primarily using their role to meet their own needs while acting as if this is the case. Recent developments in the professions of medicine, psychiatry and psychology have emphasized the importance of obtaining patients’ informed consent to clinical and therapeutic procedures. Dilemmas arise in psychotherapy concerning whether or not therapists should seek such consent and whether or not they should continue to see clients when such consent has not been obtained. Therapists generally recognize that it is important that their work is supervised. Such supervision can take place in different settings (e.g. individual or group) and take different forms.
