title: Ethics in practice: a critical appreciation of Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of "outsideness" in relation to responsibility and the creation of meaning in psychotherapy.
abstract: High standards of ethical practice are paramount in psychotherapy and involve the negotiation of complex issues in societies characterised by ethnic, cultural and religious diversity. Bakhtin's concept of "outsideness" offers a potential way of thinking about the ethical implications of therapist interventions that is transtheoretical and that pays particular attention to the use of language and the embodied nature of human interaction.
authors.affiliation: United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), Association for Cognitive Analytic Therapy (ACAT), London, UK. Psypracticewc1@Goolgemail.Com
authors.forename: Rachel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pollard
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations / Q000941:ethics*; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000941:ethics*