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Case Reports
. 2001 Spring;49(2):659-73.
doi: 10.1177/00030651010490020601.

Speaking the unspeakable: institutional reactions to boundary violations by training analysts

G O Gabbard  1 , M L Peltz; COPE Study Group on Boundary Violations. Committee on Psychoanalytic Education
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Speaking the unspeakable: institutional reactions to boundary violations by training analysts

G O Gabbard et al. J Am Psychoanal Assoc. 2001 Spring.

Abstract

The work of a COPE study group on boundary violations is summarized, with particular focus on the impact on institutes and societies of sexual misconduct by training analysts. Difficulties in evaluating such situations are discussed, and the dynamics of institutional avoidance explicated. In addition, psychodynamic themes that are commonly observed in analysts who engage in sexual boundary violations with their patients are elaborated. Finally, suggestions are made for managing, through existing mechanisms, instances of boundary violations by training analysts.

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