{"value"=>"<p> <span class=\"title\">Countertransference Responses to Sex-Role Stereotyped Behaviors in Dance Therapy Sessions</span></p> <p>This paper is an analysis of a dance therapist's countertransference responses to sex-role stereotyped attitudes and behaviors during dance therapy sessions. The purpose of the analysis was to identify countertransference indicators as they occurred during dance therapy sessions, to analyze their effects on the sessions, and to explore how the situations that evoked the countertransference might have been handled in a more therapeutic fashion. The therapist worked almost exclusively with men as clients, and believed that much of her countertransference was in response to sex-role stereotyped behavior and attitudes on the part of her clients. The therapist identified her countertransference responses using those indicators agreed upon in the literature as a guide. Her own indicators of countertransference were more specific than those outlined in the literature and could be identified as occurring on a feelings level, a thinking level, and a behavioral level. Once identified, the countertransferential responses were examined for evidence of sex-role stereotyped attitudes and behaviors of both the therapist and the clients. The therapist found that her countertransference responses were often in response to sex-role stereotyped behavior and attitudes. Her responses were placed into four categories: power, nurturance, empathy, and seduction. She was then able to analyze the effects of her countertransference responses on the dance therapy sessions, and finally to identify with the clients' real issues might have been, had she not acted on her own countertransference.</p>"}