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Therapists' Sexual Feelings and Behaviors:
Research, Trends, and Quandaries
This chapter appears in Psychological Perspectives on Human Sexuality (pages 603-658), edited by Lenore Szuchman and Frank Muscarella, published by John Wiley and Sons.
The chapter contains the following sections:
Introduction
Education About Sexual Feelings
A Topic Not Just for the Intellect (vignettes, exercises & discussion questions)
What Percentage of Therapists Engage in Sex with Their Patients?
Common Scenarios of Therapist-Patient Sexual Involvement
History of the Prohibition
Initial Research
Gender Patterns
When The Majority Masks the Minority
How Therapist-Patient Sex Affects Patients
Special Treatment for Offenders
Research and Rehabilitation
What To Do When You Don't Know What To Do
References
The chapter includes the following 6 tables of research data:
Characteristics of Clients to Whom Psychotherapists Are Attracted
Sexual and Other Occasions for Intense Emotion in Therapy
Therapists' Reports of Their Experiences As Patients
Percent of Male and Female Therapists Reporting Having Been Abused
Data from Studies of Sex with Clients Using National Samples of Therapists
Characteristics of Patients Who Had Been Sexual Involved with a Therapists
See also:
- Sex Between Therapists and Clients
- National Study of Patients Who Were Sexually Involved with Therapists
- Sexual Feelings In Psychotherapy
- National Survey of Social Workers' Sexual Attraction to Clients:Results, Implications, and Comparison to Psychologists
- Therapists' Anger, Hate, Fear, and Sexual Feelings: National Survey of Therapist Responses, Client Characteristics, Critical Events, Formal Complaints, and Training
- Therapist-Patient Sex As Sex Abuse: 6 Scientific, Professional, & Practical Issues in Addressing Victimization & Rehabilitation
- Sexual Involvement with Therapists: Patient Assessment, Subsequent Therapy, Forensics
- Ethics in Psychotherapy & Counseling, 2nd Edition