Jack Kornfield, Ph.D, author of A Path with Heart
The Ethics of Caring is an extraordinarily helpful and groundbreaking new book for healers, clergy, therapists, and bodyworkers that illuminates what is necessary to offer wise and trustworthy relations to their clients. The Ethics of Caring alerts healers not to underestimate the power of energies that arise in nonordinary states through transference and countertransference, and the palpable physical, emotional, and psychic vulnerabilities that come in these states.


Stanislav Grof, M.D., Ph.D, author of The Holotropic Mind, The Adventure of Self-Discovery, Beyond the Brain, Realms of the Human Unconscious and co-author of The Stormy Search for Self
Serious ethical considerations represent an important aspect of any therapeutic endeavor. The work with non-ordinary states of consciousness brings specific new challenges and problems that go beyond those encountered in traditional verbal and experiential approaches. Kylea Taylor's book, The Ethics of Caring, is a pioneering venture into these new territories, providing important guidelines for practitioners and students.


Angeles Arrien, Ph.D, author of The Four-Fold Way
This is a wonderful resource book that can be an invaluable professional guide for maintaining ethics and integrity within the helping professions.


From the Publisher
The Ethics of Caring is written for all caregivers, including psychotherapists, bodyworkers, medical practitioners, clergy, hypnotherapists, and acupuncturists, who want to become more conscious in their relationships with clients. It provides unique help to volunteer and professional caregivers who want to sort out confusing ethical dilemmas in seven categories including love, truth, insight, and oneness as well as the more well-known ethical issues of money, sex, and power. Ethical issues pertain to longings, feelings, and motivations which resonate at our very core. Powerful, shared experiences in the context of the therapeutic relationship can bring to the surface compelling fears, needs, and longings in both the client and the caregiver. It offers a new model of self-examination which deepens the therapeutic relationship and can prevent the harmful consequences of ethical misconduct.