THREE EXTENDED CASE STUDIES PART ILLUSTRATING SEX AND SEXUALITY IN THE TRANSFERENCE, RESISTANCE, AND COUNTERTRANSFERENCE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY 7CHAPTER THREE EXTENDED CASE STUDIES

In my book Interpreting the Countertransference (Hedges, 1992), I report on my failed engagement with a woman who, over a 3-year period, developed an erotic transference. When I have presented this case to professional audiences, listeners regularly protest that the treatment was not a failure, that Dora was very connected to me, and that she benefited considerably from our work together. True as this may be, it was the countertransference work that failed because at that time I did not know how to understand and work with the intense feelings aroused in the erotic transference.