Keeping Boundaries: Maintaining Safety and Integrity in the Psychotherapeutic Process by Richard Epstein, MD, is a thoughtful, thorough, and clinically sophisticated contribution to a complex aspect of psychotherapy. It provides scholarly and practical advice in an area often filled with more heat than light. It is an excellent addition to both the new and the experienced clinician's library. Robert J. Ursano, M.D., Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences This book is the most thorough and complete treatment of the subject of therapeutic boundaries that I have read. [It] should be read by all psychiatrists, regardless of whether they actively practices psychotherapy or pharmacotherapy. Jonas R. Rappeport, M.D., Chief Med Officer Emeritus, Circuit Court for Baltimore City, Assoc Clin Prof of Psychiatry, Univ of Maryland, School of Med, Assoc Prof, Johns Hopkins Univ, School of Med In this marvelous book on boundary maintenance in psychotherapy, Dr. Richard Epstein covers it all. No longer does the therapist need to search through assorted works to find usually brief discussions about maintaining treatment boundaries. The psychotherapist who reads this book will be empowered to keep the sound treatment boundaries that are so essential to the good care of patients. Robert I. Simon, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Director, Program in Psychiatry & Law, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC