{"value"=>"<p> <span class=\"title\">When the Therapist is Female: Role Conflict and Countertransference with a Male Patient during Group Dance Therapy Session.</span></p> <p>This paper is a case study of a female therapist's counter-transferential reactions to a male patient during group dance therapy sessions. The study seeks to identify the relationship between the patient's behaviors and the therapist's reactions, explore the possible origins of the therapist's counter-transference, and to highlight the ways in which the tensions between the roles of the therapist and female may have contributed to her on-going and pressured reactions.</p> <p>The literature review presents a survey of differing view-points about countertransference with particular emphasis on the meanings, clinical significance and uses that individual theorists attribute to this term. The literature also explores the relationship between gender and countertransference by examining and contrasting the roles of the women in contemporary western society and in psychotherapeutic treatment approaches. Areas of role conflict and subsequent countertransference are identified. In addition, the literature review highlights the immediacy of countertransferential reactions in dance therapy and surveys the literature within the field.</p> <p>The therapist's countertransferential reactions were culled from process notes from ten dance therapy sessions using indicators agreed upon in the literature. These reactions fell into four categories: cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and motor responses. The reactions were then examined for attitudes and behaviors reflective of role conflict and organized into another four categories: nurturance, personal authority, sexuality, and aggression.</p> <p>The discussion of the case material focuses on the ways in which the therapist was and was not able to resolve her counter-transference in these thematic areas, and concludes that her countertransferential responses stemmed from conflicts between her professional role and her internalized feminine role prescriptions.</p>"}