Transgender Psychoanalysis

Transgender Psychoanalysis

2017 • 198 pages

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I read this with two colleagues in a consultation group we have for serving our transgender and gender fluid patients, and we all have an interest in and varying levels of experience with psychoanalytic theory. I wish I had liked this better, and surely part of that relates to the fact that I'm more psychodynamically/attachment-oriented than psychoanalytically inclined (my idiosyncratic definition of that is I typically get more out of Winnicott than Lacan, for example). Sometimes Gherovici's writing seemed intentionally obtuse, but not in a fun, Judith Butler-esque way, and I really wish she had linked her theorizing more explicitly with her clinical work throughout. She has a great write-up of a fascinating course of psychoanalysis at the end, but for me, it came too little, too late.

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