My experience is a little different. Rather than look for a mother figure, I have adopted a distaste for women. I refuse female doctors (even ob/gyn), specified for a male therapist and pdoc. When I register for classes and find out that the professor is female, I get so irritated. I was sitting with my T the other day and all of a sudden I said, "It just occurred to me that in my internship I am going to have female clients! Eeek, what am I going to do?" It sounds strange, but whenever I pictured myself in session with a client in my internship, I always pictured giving therapy to male.

I guess my gravitation towards men is due to my rejection of women-- not as a replacement for my father because I have always had/still do have a very good relationshp with him.