| Abstract
| - This article focuses on the boundaries clinicians draw between ethical and clinical responses in their work. Although these two aspects of practice are always interdependent, within some clinical frameworks clinicians have difficulty combining ethical and clinical deliberation. Focusing particularly on psychodynamic models of practice, the authors present three clinical vignettes. These vignettes highlight worker responses to one client's stealing and feelings of entitlement about it, another client's racism, and another's sexual abuse by a previous therapist. Arguing that good clinical practice is not necessarily good ethical practice, the authors recommend that ethical deliberation be a more explicit focus of treatment and of practitioners' self-examination.
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