Boundary violations and attachment
TL;DR: In this paper, Sarkar argues that transference is the crucial ethical obstacle to sexual relationships between psychiatrists, psychotherapists and patients, present and past, and argues that power inequalities are ubiquitous.
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Abstract: [Sarkar (2009)][1] argues that transference is the crucial ethical obstacle to sexual relationships between psychiatrists, psychotherapists and patients, present and past. However, as he rightly points out, transference and power inequalities are ubiquitous. In the invited commentary, [Sheather (
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