Closeness in Personal and Professional Relationships

When is a relationship too close, and when is it not close enough? How intimate can or should be the relationship between therapist and client, doctor and patient, supervisor and trainee? These questions of pressing concern-especially where power imbalances and ethical issues complicate relationships-are addressed by Joseph L. Henderson, June Singer, Peter Rutter, Montague Ullman, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Harry A. Wilmer, and eight other writers. Includes a foreword by Maya Angelou.

Harry A. Wilmer, M.D., is a Jungian analyst, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, and the director of the Institute for the Humanities at Salado, Texas. He is the author of Practical Jung and the editor of several anthologies, including Creativity and Mother/Father.