Mental health professionals are constantly expected to check their professional approach, their relationships with their patients and their personal experiences from their ethical perspectives, in order to ensure responsible treatment that take into consideration the patients’ needs, their rights and benevolence, while avoiding as much as possible any harm to their patients or any others involved. In spite of the existence of many detailed ethical codes that are meant to assist and navigate professionals in their professional behaviors in a complicated therapeutic realm, it is very often difficult to choose the right pathway. Through our understanding the complexity of ethical dilemmas in therapy, evaluation, supervision and research we relate with a strong emphasis on the standardization of the process of identification of ethical dilemmas and their resolving, as auxiliary tools in coping with them. The Seven Steps Model for the solution of ethical dilemmas we hand in this book, we developed while taking into serious account both the potentials and the weaknesses of existing similar models, and on the basis of the professional expertise, we gained while our long services as members and chairpersons of the Israel Psychologists Association Ethics committee. After a presentation of the model and its professional roots, we present fifteen examples for ethical misconducts in various fields in clinical psychology, implementing the Seven Steps Model.

Sigmund Freud's 150 Birthday Anniversary was celebrated on May 2006. The event was commemorated through hundreds of Scientific and Cultural event around the world. The Sigmund Freud Center for Study and Research in Psychoanalysis, of the Hebrew University, held a multi-disciplinary convention in Jerusalem in which was discussed Freud's important mass Civilization and Its Discontents. Due to the success of the convention, it was thought that it would be appropriate to process the lectures into articles and put them together in this book.