Transference and countertransference issues with sexually abused clients

Mann, David

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“…The therapist's sexual transference need be no more detrimental to therapy than feelings of jealousy, rivalry, hate, etc., providing they are scrutinized by the therapist in self-analysis. Positive erotic countertransference or transference feelings can be an asset to the therapeutic relationship in providing an opportunity to re-experience these passions with appropriate boundaries and containment (Mann 1995). However, if the therapist acts in such a way as to gratify his eroticized countertransference feelings, his own dynamics have obscured those of the clients and, by implication, his own self-analysis is incomplete.…”

Section: A Psychodynamic Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Similarly, the conditions under which therapy takes place may lend itself to the enactment of perverse transference. Such an assumption would necessitate, as Mann (1995) suggests, that the therapist has undergone a complete personal analysis. Stoller (1975) proposes that perversion is the product of the individual's sexual development, where the adult reverses his childhood traumas and re-enacts them, seeking control and triumph in fantasy over those who once humiliated him.…”

Section: A Psychodynamic Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

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A Psychodynamic Profile of Therapists Who Sexually Exploit Their Clients

Hetherington¹

2000

Brit J Psychotherapy

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This paper reviews recent literature pertaining to therapists who sexually exploit their clients. It examines some of the common characteristics that have been identified in therapists who abuse, and the psychosexual factors in their background. It goes on to discuss the dynamics which may prevail in the event of therapist abuse. Research suggests that therapists who exploit their role will only do so if they are in some way dysfunctional (Russell 1993). Similarly, therapists who abuse are found to have severe problems with their own sexual identities and experience a considerable amount of sexual anxiety and guilt in their personal relationships (Strean 1993b). It is suggested that their own unresolved conflicts take precedence over those of their clients and unconsciously they harbour a deep antipathy towards the practice of psychotherapy (Strean 1993a).

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Section: A Psychodynamic Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: A Psychodynamic Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%