A Stranger in My Own Body: Atypical Gender Identity Development and Mental Health

ISBN-13: 9780367327132 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 360 str.

Domenico Di Ceglie

Opis

This book brings together the thinking of an international group of clinicians, researchers, and professionals from different disciplines and is based primarily on a selection of papers presented at a conference on the same topic held at the Tavistock Centre, London, in November 1996, but with additional original contributions. It presents a dia

Spis treści

Foreword -- Preface -- Development and mental health: the issue of difference in atypical gender identity development -- Reflections on the nature of the “atypical gender identity organization” -- Associated psychopathology in children with gender identity disorder -- The complexity of early trauma: representation and transformation -- Biological contributions to atypical gender identity development -- The contribution of social anthropology to the understanding of atypical gender identity in childhood -- Some developmental trajectories towards homosexuality, transvestism, and transsexualism: mental health implications -- Gender identity disorder, depression, and suicidal risk -- Gender identity development and eating disorders -- Child sexual abuse and gender identity development: some understanding from work with girls who have been sexually abused -- Intersex disorder in childhood and adolescence: gender identity, gender role, sex assignment, and general mental health -- Management and therapeutic aims in working with children and adolescents with gender identity disorders, and their families -- Case illustrations -- Children of transsexual parents -- Introduction to "Gender Identity Disorders in Children and Adolescents Guidance for Management" -- The Gender Identity Development Unit at the Portman Clinic, London -- Mermaids

O autorze

Di Ceglie, Domenico