ABSTRACT
From the first session with Teresa, there was a sense of disturbance that seemed to reach beyond her and the problems that brought her into therapy. A doctoral student in her mid-twenties, Teresa was hesitant to begin therapy, having recently left a psychoanalytic therapy that had ended badly. When the author inquired about her family background in the next session, Teresa said she was "bicultural," her father being Jewish and her mother Latino. The author began to feel that the therapy he had been providing up to this point had been supportive but was insufficient. He often felt more like a teacher or coach than a psychotherapist, but Teresa clearly valued their time and work together, so it had seemed "good enough." During the time that the author was working with Teresa, he had begun reading a series of articles by Maurice Apprey on what he called "transgenerational haunting.".
