Am J Psychiatry 1978; 135:928-931
Copyright © 1978 by American Psychiatric Association
Cross-sex supervision for cross-sex therapy
A Alonso and JS Rutan
The female supervisor can help the male therapist in training to overcome
problems in cross-sex therapy by presenting herself as a role model,
providing relevant literature, and sharing her own experiences as a woman
and as a professional. By enabling the male trainee to identify safely with
a woman in a position of relative power, she can help him to deal with the
intrinsic limitations of empathy and with other problems, such as
"countertransference deafness," that may block his work with female
patients.
