Tracking allegations of two boundary violations in my institute and an enactment that
occurred at around the same time, I argue that sexuality's role has been underestimated …

Sexual boundary violations have been studied primarily from a psychological point of view,
focusing on the individual psychology of the perpetrator and the victim. But sexual boundary …

Sexual boundary violations—and their perpetrators—are ghosts that haunt us within (and of
course outside) the psychoanalytic world. Reverberating well beyond the particular analytic …

The official condemnation of all sexual contact between psychotherapists and patients can
be called the “absolutist position.” Some therapists harbor private views that differ from the …

Sexual boundary violations (SBVs) are devastating events within a psychoanalytic institute.
SBVs are harmful not only to the patient/candidate upon whom the violation was committed …

Sexual boundary violations are ghosts that silence and haunt our psychoanalytic
communities. In an attempt to break that silence and confront our ghosts, I put together a …

I have grown convinced that the approach to the problem is only partially addressed by
exploring the individual issues in the analysts and the “fit” between analyst and patient in a …

The 13 articles raise some very interesting issues, which clearly need more consideration. In
addition, several authors made specific suggestions. In the first part of the present article, we …

abstract The problem of sexual boundary violations in psychoanalytic therapies was
endemic for the founding generation of psychoanalysts and remains so for analytic …

Sexual boundary violations have occurred between psychoanalysts and their patients since
the beginnings of our profession. Using results from an informal survey, this paper explores …