ABSTRACT
Andrea has been seeing me in treatment for three years. She is an extremely attractive, professional woman in her early forties who has been divorced for six years. She initially consulted me because of her difficulty in establishing a satisfying long-term relationship with a man, and because of feeling stuck in her career. She has a characteristic pattern of becoming involved with men who are emotionally unavailable, and of having casual sexual relationships, which while satisfying at one level, leave her feeling exploited and empty at another. Her father is a rather passive, emotionally unavailable man, while her mother is more dominant, and expressive, but ultimately self-centered and narcissistic.
