On the more pathological side of the spectrum, Akhtar (1996) categorizes certain behavior as “malignant erotic transference” which can be described in four aspects:

(1) predominance of hostility over love in the seemingly erotic overtures;
(2) intense coercion of the analyst to indulge in actual actions;
(3) inconsolability inresponse to the analyst’s depriving stance, and
(4) the absence of erotic countertransference in the analyst, who experiences such “erotic” demands as intrusive, desperately controlling, and hostile
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The above was posted upthread. Everything about this is thoroughly disgusting.

Am I to understand that in the minds of therapists it's considered reasonable to rouse intense erotic feelings in another human being, pathologize those feelings with a hateful and vile term like "malignant", and castigate the client for not having the proper response to the analyst's twisted "depriving stance"?

This conception is itself pathological. The lunatics have taken over the asylum.