ABSTRACT
Boundaries are indispensable for perception and thought, and for establishing the psychoanalytic situation and relation, as well as the technique and ethics of psychoanalytic practice. Boundary violations are an abuse and exploitation of patients, in sexual, aggressive, economic, political, academic, and narcissistic terms. Psychoanalytic institutions have usually concealed the existence of boundary violations, as a collective narcissistic defense. Working through and healing the collective impact of such transgressions is urgently required through prolonged and open discussion, group techniques, and the analysis of sexual strivings and conflicts, relational and social concerns, and the political significance of power relationships.
