Before coming to see me, Marco had already encountered his first analyst—a member of the IPA–who had focused his diagnosis on a perversion trait and pursued the treatment through an attempt to normalize the subject’s sex drive.

Marco first met his old analyst—as he called him—when he was eleven years old and was having difficulties at school. He left the old analyst when he entered University and soon thereafter made contact with me. For the past thirteen years I have been seeing him with the same frequency: four times a week.

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