Sex-Role Related Countertransference in Psychotherapy
- 1 January 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of General Psychiatry
- Vol. 33 (1) , 71-3
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1976.01770010041008
Abstract
Data from one psychological and one psychiatric agency were collected to determine if psychotherapists' treatment decisions about opposite-sex persons might be influenced by sex-role prescriptions for dealing with sexual impulses. Accordingly, male therapists were hypothesized to prolong and female therapists to avoid treatment situations likely to arouse their sexual curiosities. The results at both facilities provide some support for these notions and, if generalizable, establish sex-role primed countertransference as a factor in patient selection and termination.Keywords
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