Honesty in the therapeutic relationship is the overarching theme in the data. As Julia exclaimed: A moment where you are completely honest with each other; I felt like it was…
Findings The findings demonstrate that far from normalizing sexual attraction, experienced psychotherapists tend to react negatively in these situations, moralizing their reactions to client sexual attraction. A general picture of…
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”> 12 The Self-Preservation Society A Discourse Analysis of Male Heterosexual Therapists and Discourses of Sexual Attraction John Penny and Malcolm Cross The Context Therapists, clients and sex: an…
Vulnerability to Attraction? The Psychotherapist’s Characteristics Characteristics that influence the handling of sexual attraction include therapists’ personal and professional identities (i.e., values, moral and ethical principles, boundaries, beliefs), which, in…
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’. Unknown to you, you accidently sent the text to the couple with whom you’re meeting. They receive the text as you all enter the session. What are the dangers…
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”> 10 Why Can’t We Be Lovers? The Love-Obsessed Clients Who Stalk Their Therapist Maria Luca and Juliet Soskice The question in the title of our chapter ‘why can’t…
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”> 9 Bound to the Mast Reflections on Analytic Abstinence Andrea Sabbadini The subject of erotic transference and countertransference in psychoanalysis1 is close to our profession’s bone, and bringing…
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”> 7 Addressing Sexual Attraction in Supervision Kirsten W. Murray and John Sommers-Flanagan Ethical models predictably involve consultation and supervision as necessary steps in the ethical decision-making process. As…
