Matters of Life and Sex

Trans-ing Psychoanalysis

In 2010, feeling the need to reflect upon the lessons I learned from my practice, I wrote a book about patients who identified as transgender entitled Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism. This book summarized my experience during a time of reform that ...
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Psychoanalysis Needs a Sex Change

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. "Six years ago, when I published Please Select Your Gender, a book inspired by my clinical practice, I had not foreseen a wave that has swept away everything else in pop culture’s imagination. It also engulfed psychiatric and psychoanalytic ...
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Psychoanalysis Needs a Sex Change