title: Flirting with death: the role of father in containment of sexually perverse behavior.
abstract: The author demonstrates, through clinical case illustration, how sexual perversion is linked to traumatic early separation-individuation processes. The illusion of fusion with a seductive and gratifying mother-introject led a young man into the risky business of unprotected gay sex with strangers. The pleasure-seeking child and enabling mother narrative was played out in the transference/counter-transference relationship threatening to pervert the analysis. Authoritative limit setting re-introduced a potent, previously castrated, father figure into the patient's inner world and gave the patient impetus to separate from the undifferentiated mix-up between mother and child, resulting in containment of dangerous sexual behaviors.
authors.forename: Endre
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Koritar
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009769:Object Attachment; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D014167:Transference, Psychology