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Glen O. Gabbard, MD; Carol Nadelson, MD

JAMA. 1995;273(18):1445-1449.

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THE SUBJECT of professional boundaries (and boundary violations) has received a great deal of recent attention in the psychiatric literature.^1-5 The emphasis on defining guidelines for professional conduct has expanded beyond the confines of ethics committees and has worked its way into licensing boards charged with disciplining physicians whose behavior jeopardizes the well-being of patients. The Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine,⁶ for example, has recently issued detailed guidelines on such matters as self-disclosure, dual relationships, sexual relationships with patients, and other professional boundaries to help define for the public and for the profession the parameters of professional conduct in the practice of psychotherapy by physicians. While specialists in psychiatry have been debating the pros and cons of issuing such guidelines, nonpsychiatric physicians have yet to involve themselves so extensively in similar discussions. In this article, we will provide a conceptual framework for discussion of professional boundaries in . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From The Menninger Clinic, Topeka, Kan (Dr Gabbard), and Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass (Dr Nadelson).

Footnotes
Reprint requests to The Menninger Clinic, PO Box 829, Topeka, KS 66601-0829 (Dr Gabbard).

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