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The absence of frameworks for discussion of social class issues within psychotherapy is one concern of this exploratory paper. Another is to raise questions about how we might think psychoanalytically about the far-reaching impact of class. A small exploratory qualitative research study is described in which experienced psychoanalytic psychotherapists were interviewed about class issues. The interviews mainly concerned their perceptions and understandings of class issues within psychotherapeutic relationships, but were framed by biographical and professional experiences relating to class. The reports from pairings of differently classed therapists and patients raised many questions about the ways in which class and class differences can be experienced and understood within the transference/countertransference matrix, as well as the surrounding anxieties and projections.