ABSTRACT
Ethics is an area which has come under more scrutiny lately, and it may be confidently predicted that it will become more and more complex and hard to handle. In recent years much more attention has been paid to the ethics of therapy. One of the strongest influences in making this happen was the revelation of Alice Miller that not only was there such a thing as child abuse, but that the therapist in the session could often be abusing the client all over again. In private practice there is no ambiguity as to whom the therapist is working for. Therapy can become a form of social control. One of the most important ethical issues which arise in all forms of therapy is the question of boundaries. As Petruska Clarkson has told us brilliantly, there are at least five relationships all going on at the same time in therapy namely therapeutic alliance, transferential relationship, reparative relationship, real relationship, transpersonal relationship.
