Sex role-related countertransference revisited. A partial extension

We attempted to extend two findings obtained at private university clinics to a heterogeneous community outpatient population: an under-representation of male patients in the case loads of beginning female therapists and longer treatment of female patients by beginning male therapists. Data from professional and preprofessional psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers partially replicated the first finding but not the second. The results thus leave open the question of subtle sex role-related countertransference in a large urban community mental health setting.