In the case of sexuality and gender, can whatever is in the mind be changed, perhaps with help of psychotherapy or otherwise, rather than opt for external surgery? Is psychotherapeutic treatment powerless in the case of transsexuals? This intriguing volume is a work by a French psychoanalyst with extensive experience of working with transsexuals. It is a useful addition to the debate on transsexuals and the definitions of sex and gender.
The word -transsexualism- was coined in 1953, although transsexuals and intersexed people had existed long before that, and surgery to reassign...
In the case of sexuality and gender, can whatever is in the mind be changed, perhaps with help of psychotherapy or otherwise, rather than opt for exte...
It is well known that Freud laid great emphasis on sexual matters. In the years that followed, a distinction was drawn between sex and gender--the idea of gender identity was introduced. Human beings do not spend every minute of their lives copulating, but at every minute of their lives their gender identity is present, thus the statement that sex really does make the world go around.
Of course, as far as material reality is concerned, money and other economic factors also make the world go round. But we can never get away from our gender identity, and sexuality is so pervasive,...
It is well known that Freud laid great emphasis on sexual matters. In the years that followed, a distinction was drawn between sex and gender--the ide...
Offers an alternative view of transsexuality from a psychiatric and European point of view. This book draws together the insights of depth psychology, psychoanalysis, history, anthropology and sociology for rethinking transsexualism in terms of identity, subjectivity and the wider socio-historical world.
Offers an alternative view of transsexuality from a psychiatric and European point of view. This book draws together the insights of depth psychology,...
