This chapter addresses areas of theoretical and clinical ambiguity in everyday practice that
sometimes contribute to sexual boundary violations. The latter involve an act of erasure …

Sexual boundary violations are as old as psychoanalysis itself. Yet, although this
professional, intellectual, clinical, and personal dilemma is receiving more attention in the …

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 …

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

This article addresses several conceptual ambiguities, contradictions, and vagaries that can
play a part as either an unconscious backdrop or as a conscious rationale for sexual …

This article attempts to elucidate the psychodynamics of analysts' sexual boundary violations
and, one hopes, to widen an area of inquiry that has been neglected in the psychoanalytic …

This paper considers the impact of boundary violations on institutions and on what we might
term collateral damage: colleagues, patients, and family members. The transgressions …

In setting up a psychoanalytic situation, defined by its frame and parameters, and by our
unwavering role, we earn the right to invite our patients to enter an enchanted state of mind …

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 ferry analysts and patients from thought to action, from the
symbolic toward the materiality of life. They bring the outside in. Yes, they are enactments of …