ABSTRACT
In this paper, the recent interest in the effect of gender on the analytic process is expanded into an exploration of the salience of gender for the supervisory experience. A long-standing tradition within psychoanalysis, which asserts that the sex of the analyst vis-avis the patient is unimportant, as major transferential configurations will be reenacted regardless of analyst gender, has been questioned by a number of authors (Liebert, 1986; Meyers, 1986; Moldawsky, 1986; Person, 1983). Their findings that transferential sequences and manifestations appear to be influenced by the sex of the analyst need not surprise us, as gender is probably the most salient aspect of the analyst as a real object.
