Cross gendered longings and the demand for categorization: Enacting gender within the transference-countertransference relationship

Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 27-46

  Tholfsen, Barbara ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Countertransference; Feminism; Gender identity; Postmodernism; Psychotherapy; Relational psychoanalysis; Transference

Indexed keywords

EID: 46649093393     PISSN: 08917140     EISSN: 15407128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J236v04n02_03     Document Type: Article

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