This special issue focuses on sexual boundary violations. Our intent is clear: We want to promote discussion and clarification on this topic. Underlying this special issue is the belief that a study of sexual boundary violations can potentially avert reenactments. As we are all potentially vulnerable to boundary transgressions, including sexual ones, such study is essential. In this first overview article, we present a brief summary of some of the major topics relevant to sexual boundary violations as well as an overview of the articles included in this special issue on sexual boundary violations.

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This paper will address the impact of 9/11 on a university campus classroom near Ground Zero. The effect on an NYU graduate Trauma course 8 years post 9/11 will be described. Dale & Alpert (2006) have addressed the impact in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 on NYU, and the healing process both within the course, in the Applied Psychology Department and in the NYU community. They described how the department, including both students and faculty, played a healing role for both the NYU community and it's wider surroundings. Although other studies have addressed 9/11 trauma, or looked at the experience of other kinds of trauma in University settings, this paper will address the impact of 9/11 on a non-clinical group of students in a graduate classroom 8 years later. The first week of class coincided with the anniversary of 9/11. This trauma course was geared to engage the students in connecting the theoretical material to the actual experience of trauma. Everyone spoke on this first day of his or her own personal connection to 9/11. Some were directly exposed or suffered profound traumatic loss on that day. This paper explores the possibility of enhancing coping by utilizing student's own traumatic experience, while learning about trauma in a classroom setting. The pedagogical use of the student/healer's own traumatic experience in the classroom, highlights a beneficial use of student's own narratives of trauma in teaching.

The 13 articles raise some very interesting issues, which clearly need more consideration. In addition, several authors made specific suggestions. In the first part of the present article, we consider these issues as well as some observations, questions, and issues demanding more consideration. The second part of this last article is "vignette driven." For the purposes of this concluding chapter we developed 3 vignettes, focusing on analyst-analysand contact posttreatment, analyst-analysand sexual contact posttreatment, and analyst-analysand physical contact during treatment. We asked a few contributing senior analysts who have been studying sexual boundary violations over time to respond to these vignettes. The independent (from each other) responses of analysts Andrea Celenza, Muriel Dimen with Charles Amrhein, and Barbara Pizer are included here and discussed.

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