ABSTRACT
Helena Hargaden’s (2001) case study, “There ain’t no cure for love,” is a frank examination of the erotic and sexual aspects of an intensive psychotherapy. As such, it provides the readers of the Transactional Analysis Journal with an opportunity that is rare in the transactional analysis literature. In her discussion of this rich and complex case, Helena offers a detailed account of her clinical thinking and countertransferential reactions as the therapy unfolded. Her case is further extended in fascinating ways by Richard Erskine (2001) and Charlotte Sills (2001) in discussant papers originally prepared for the 2001 Institute of Transactional Analysis (ITA) Conference in Keele, England. I am contributing a third discussant paper from a different diagnostic perspective.
