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Basing this paper on her analytic experience in three different countries, Dr. Ticho discusses a variety of problems that arise when analyst and analysand have different cultural backgrounds. Analysts, she suggests, are the target of their patients' stereotypic ideas. Cultural stereotypes include, for instance, the view that 'North Americans are industrious and conscientious, South Americans are sexually promiscuous and unreliable', attitudes that constitute projections of ambivalence toward cultural values. Stereotypes can determine the patient's choice of therapist and provide a vehicle for the expression of resistances and transference manifestations. When patient and analyst share a common cultural background, the analyst is more liable to overlook or take for granted certain potentially symptomatic behaviors; for example, some South American analysts do not question their compatriots' lateness to appointments. The double-edged aspect of work with patients whose cultural background differs from the analyst's is emphasized. The analyst can, on the one hand, bring fresh viewpoints to, and be creatively stimulated by, the confrontation. On the other hand, when working in an unfamiliar cultural setting, the analyst can be prone