Abstract
Working through transferences to the leader/trainer, within a learning community context, is a fundamental and vital element in the training of psychotherapists and counsellors. Bion and Laplanche offer useful ways of thinking about regression and transference in this context; while the four-year training we offer at Roehampton University is phenomenologically based, and has a significant experiential aspect through the learning community; such existential-analytic thinking helps the tutor/leaders live through and communicate the transference experience to our students. A selection of vignettes aims to convey the texture of this experience and an examination of tutor/leader roles in relation to Freud's three ‘impossible professions’ gives an idea of its complexity. There are arguments against tutor involvement of the kind we outline, but we consider here the case for regarding it as mandatory.
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