Race and its relevance to transference.

There is general feeling that racial attitudes could foster resistance strong enough to prevent successful psychotherapy, particularly in the South. The authors, a black psychiatric resident and his white supervisor, feel that race can be used by both patient and therapist to prevent the development of transference, but that the issue can be dealt with as a resistance. They describe the development of effective transference between a black psychiatric resident and an eleven-year-old white girl in the South.