Psychotherapists' sexual relationships with their patients.

Prohibiting lawyer-client sex.

Psychotherapists' and physicians' sexual contact with their patients has been long held as unethical conduct. However, lawyers' sexual contact with clients has been largely ignored in the professional literature. This article uniquely anatomizes the similarities in the vulnerabilities and power imbalances that exist between psychotherapists' and lawyers' relationships with patients/clients. The...

Psychotherapy of nonheterosexual people from the perspectives of therapists and patients - bilateral expectations and concerns.

OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to show the differences in declared therapeutic goals and priorities, and in concerns about the therapeutic process, between LGB (lesbians, gays and bisexual people) people and psychotherapists. METHODS Participants from both groups fulfilled semi-structured questionnaire, which was anonymously available on-line through the link sent together with the invit...

Sexual relations between psychotherapists and their patients: toward research or restraint.

Stigmatizing attitudes towards people with pedophilia and their malleability among psychotherapists in training.

Offering counseling and psychotherapy to patients with pedophilia is considered an essential part of sexual abuse prevention by many experts in the field. Yet, professionals' willingness to offer treatment might be compromised by stigmatizing attitudes towards these patients. In the present study, we developed and tested a 10-min online intervention (including educational material and a video a...

Change after long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy in clinical practice is traditionally a long-term treatment conducted by well-trained psychotherapists. However, very few studies have been published that evaluate the effects of such treatment. To redress this lack of studies, 55 individuals selected for long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy (average, 3 years) were invited to participate in a naturalistic study. T...