Sub plenary: Ethics in Psychotherapy

ABSTRACT

How should we understand morality and how does it differ from ethics, how are these concepts different?  Moreover, what are professional ethics and ethical codes? Are they equivalent to laws and how do they match with one’s personal ethics and morality?

What does it mean, when we say that the psychotherapist’s profession is ethically especially sensitive and ethics should be in the very core of the therapeutic relationship?  Is it possible to offer ethical education to professionals and what should it be like?

These and many other questions concerning ethics in  psychotherapy will be discussed in this presentation in the light of

• literature of psychotherapy ethics and
• discussions of 23 psychotherapists, who attended my research by discussing psychotherapy ethics three times in small groups.