“How do you like those boundaries?”: Metaphor and ontology of therapeutic boundaries
Published online on June 17, 2026
Abstract
History of the Human Sciences, Ahead of Print.
Across the mental health professions, the metaphor of “boundaries” serves to designate a metaethics of therapist–patient conduct that ranges from the clinical setting to the therapeutic relationship. Though once rare, by the 1990s, boundary nomenclature ...
Across the mental health professions, the metaphor of “boundaries” serves to designate a metaethics of therapist–patient conduct that ranges from the clinical setting to the therapeutic relationship. Though once rare, by the 1990s, boundary nomenclature ...