ABSTRACT
Ever since the formal inception of psychotherapy as a profession, psychotherapists have had major difficulties in monitoring their sexual wishes toward patients. In Freud's inner circle, Otto Rank turned his analysand, Anais Nin, into his mistress. Ernest Jones, Freud's biographer, spent a good part of his career fending off accusations that he sexually molested young patients and had sexual intercourse with older ones. Sandor Ferenczi believed that his patients needed physical comfort; therefore, he openly fondled their breasts and hugged them frequently. Carl Jung had prolonged affairs with several of his patients, including one who became a psychoanalyst (Grosskurth, 1991).
