Transgender Identities

by Alessandra Lemma

This important new book by Alessandra Lemma provides a succinct overview of psychoanalytic understandings, approaches and controversies around transgender identifications. Illustrated with case vignettes, Lemma provides an up-to-date synthesis of current research and a critical overview of psychoanalytic approaches to transgender identities, distilling some of the contemporary controversies about how to approach the topic in the consulting room. Lemma also outlines a psychoanalytically informed ethical framework to support clinicians working with individuals who request medical transitioning and distils the ethical challenges faced by clinicians in light of the current emphasis on gender affirmative care. Part of the Routledge Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis series, this book is of great importance for psychoanalysts in practice, academics and all those with an interest in transgender identities and mental health.

Genres: Psychoanalysis, Psychology, Gender

142 pages, Paperback

Published December 29, 2021

Reviews

[Farrah Rotman]

just because you say you’re exploring the conversation from all sides does not mean you actually are. each case study holds transgender teens up to standards of self knowledge that are laughably impossible - i’d like to see cis kids held to those same standards. maybe the effects of stalling puberty are under-studied and have scary implications on the full exploration of adolescent sexuality. you know what’s even scarier? going through puberty in an incongruous gender and trying to develop a sexual self when the entire world feels upside down. this whole book is an act of selective omission from an author who calls herself an advocate but is just another generic british terf

[Rachel]

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[Daniele]

Ottimo testo psicoanalitico relativo alle identità transgender: il testo è breve ma denso. Contiene riflessioni teoriche, risultati delle ricerche più attuali e quattro casi clinici, frutto del lavoro dell'autrice con persone trans. Molto interessante. Spero che la casa editrice porti altri testi di questa analista.