The panel as a whole achieved its goal of high- lighting particular countertransferences elicited in the analysis of adolescents. For Chiland, the analysis of adolescents is rem- iniscent of many adults who, in their initial stages of analysis, experience a sense of multiple potenti- alities. She suggested that the impact of a young patient, who can be, or is, sexually active brings with it a powerful effect upon the quality and intensity of the countertransference. The choice of the gender and age of the analyst may well be left to the adolescent patient; its meaning, analysed later.
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