Focus on some of the countertransference issues in cross-cultural psychotherapy, with reference to one specific, and in some ways unique, therapist-patient dyad: the Jewish (Israeli) therapist and the Arab patient common types of countertransference [excessive and ambivalent curiosity about the patient's culture, making an "island" of the treatment situation, manifestations of guilt, manifestations of aggression] / the management and use of countertransference.