“…Reports from and about pregnant psychoanalytic therapists focus mainly on their impact on patients. The pregnancy as a potent transference stimulus (Clarkson, 1980;Gottlieb, 1989) is a common denominator, as is the issue of premature arousal of transference (Bassen, 1988;Deben-Mager, 1993), noting each patient's different reaction in accord with her own individual psychohistory. Other central issues are the breech of analytic anonymity (Appelbaum and Diamond, 1993), the therapist's self-absorption (Nadelson et al, 1974;Bassen, 1988), the patient's exposure to the analyst's sexuality (Lax, 1969;Browning, 1974), disruptive intensification of resistance (Penn, 1986), and exacerbated dynamics of dependency, loss, and separation induced by maternity leave (Browning, 1974;Bassen, 1988).…”