ABSTRACT
In their book Boundaries and Boundary Violations in Psychoanalysis, Gabbard and Lester (1995) state that “a central paradox of the analytic situation is that professional boundaries must be maintained so that both participants have the freedom to cross them psychologically” (p. 42). In our case illustration, it became repeatedly difficult to maintain the professional (external) boundaries that constitute the analytic frame, within which “the patient’s needs, wishes and demands for transcendence and transgression unfold and are understood, renounced, modified and rechanneled” (Akhtar, 1999, p. 116).
