| Abstrakt: |
Treating youngsters who are moderately to severely psychiatrically disordered in institutional settings often arouses in staff intense sexual feelings. This paper focuses on the nature of these feelings and how these may be dealt with clinically and administratively. "Erotic" rather than "sexual" is the preferred term used in the paper to indicate the view that although some of these reactions are, in the final analysis, indeed sexual in nature, the way they are manifested usually assumes many deceptive forms. That is to say. some of the reactions may be overtly sexual, but others take the form of innocent looking affiliative actions such as "too much hugging," "too much spoiling," or to use a currently favored term-"too much bonding." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
