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In child analysis, the gender of the analyst can enhance the transference, provide a focus for resistance to the transference, highlight the use of transference as a resistance, and serve a developmental need which may then enhance the transference. In the treatment of children fixated at anal sadistic levels, the
analyst's gender may be important in two additional ways: in regard to the countertransference and to the mother's transference to the child's analyst. Case material is used for demonstration and clarification.