Boundary Wars: by Katherine Hancock Ragsdale

by Katherine Hancock Ragsdale

Boundary Wars
Intimacy and Distance in Healing Relationships

Katherine Hancock Ragsdale

Are intimate relations between clergy and those they serve, or between mental heath professionals and their patients, ethical? Do such relations represent an abuse of power? Is meaningful consent ever possible? This book squarely addresses these questions#and contains surprising answers.

Edited by Katherine Hancock Ragsdale, BOUNDARY WARS reflects fourteen diverse perspectives from mental heath professionals and clergy; theologians, ethicists, a lawyer, and a historian; academicians and practitioners; people of color, differing sexual orientations, and various ethnic identifications.

While uniformly supporting victims and abhorring abuse, these contributors reveal profound differences in interpreting the need for boundaries in healing relationships. Some, such as Marie Fortune, Ronald Barton, and Karen Lebacqz, suggest only a "distance" model is morally legitimate; others, such as Carter Heyward, Beverly Harrison, and Susan Baur, suggest that rigid, artificial boundaries between individuals may not always be appropriate#and may in fact impede the therapeutic process.

The first resource of its kind, BOUNDARY WARS is a much-needed road map for the sharply controversial journey to hearing.

KATHERINE HANCOCK RAGSDALE, an Episcopal priest, is a former executive director of Common Cause/VA. She is currently the national president of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.

264 pp.- 5-1/2 x 8-1/4

Boundary Wars: by Katherine Hancock Ragsdale by Katherine Hancock Ragsdale
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