The Monster Within: Countertransference Reflections on a Gay Adolescent’s Struggle with Sexual Identity.

This paper concerns the author's countertransference reflections on her work with a gay adolescent who identifies with powerfully destructive internal objects, including Hitler and the Monster. The author describes her countertransference inquiry through which she experiences her own potential destructiveness in order to help accommodate her adolescent patient's rejected and disowned self states. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]