Responding therapeutically to patient expression of sexual attraction

Lorna Smith Benjamin, Gene Broderson

(Producer) This video portrays various ways in which clients express their sexual attraction to therapists during sessions and illustrates therapeutically methods for handling them. This stimulus training demonstrates how six psychologists respond in session to clients' expressions of sexual attraction. The vignettes were drawn from videotaped sessions in which professional actors portray actual clients in unscripted and spontaneous exchanges. Each of the vignettes shows the content and process of the client's expression of sexual attraction, the therapist's initial responses, and some of the ensuing transaction.