This clinical communication describes the analysis of a perverse transference in an overtly bisexual man. An intricate interplay between heterosexual and homosexual relations enabled him to maintain some heterosexual functioning and to counteract or evacuate intolerable affects and vengeful impulses-originating from early traumas-through perverse acting out with sexual partners. Building on the notion that patients with sexual perversions recreate aspects of their perversion in the transferencel countertransference relationship, where it must be analysed, the author illustrates through detailed clinical material how she was drawn into the fabric of her patient's perversion and how this was worked through.
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