Working Psychoanalytically with Gender Diversity and Sexualities

Resistances to Differences
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-87187-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 178 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: IPA Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies

Working Psychoanalytically with Gender Diversity and Sexualities considers and challenges expectations about psychoanalytic work with LGBTQIA+ patients.

The book is organised into three parts, starting with a theoretical review, which includes a discussion of the relevance of the Oedipus complex, resistance to infantile sexuality, the conquest of otherness and challenges in maintaining neutrality. Secondly, the contributors approach an ethical dimension, with chapters describing different moments in the way in which psychoanalysts engage with ethical responsibility in the face of gender and sexual diversity. The third part of the book considers an ontological dimension, that incorporates fluidity as a condition of the subject as an object of study and includes factors such as race and generational status, emergence of stigmas and a particular focus on the concept of helplessness. The contributors offer insight into countertransferential reactions and responses in clinical work, ensuring that analysts can work with these patients without preconceptions standing in the way.

Extending an opportunity to air conflicting psychoanalytic views and rethink established psychoanalytic concepts, this book will be key reading for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists in practice and in training. It will also be of interest to academics and students of psychoanalytic studies and gender studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thomson-Salo, Frances

Posadas, Marco

Acosta, Silvia R.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors

Series editor preface

Introduction

Marco Posadas, Silvia Acosta and Frances Thomson-Salo

Part 1. Gender diversity and sexuality: theoretical revisions that include diversity

Introduction

Angela Vila-Real

1. The Oedipus complex: an expanded approach on sexual and gender polyphonies

Leticia Glocer Fiorini

2. Psychosexuality and the problem of (mis)representation: A mentalizing perspective

Liz Allison

3. Encountering otherness: On the ability (and inability) for psychic movement within sexual states of mind

Anat Schumann

4. Shapes of gender identity: Three stories with an impact

Domenico di Ceglie

Part 2. Psychoanalytic ethics and depathologising gender diversities and sexualities: Intolerance as an unconscious response to violence in analytic field

Introduction

Marco Posadas

5. The many colours of the rainbow: Depathologising sexual diversity

Sergio Lewkowicz

6. Towards a psychoanalytic ethics-based practice with transgender individuals

Alessandra Lemma

7. A history of reception: Falling apart as the ground for learning

Oren Gozlan

Part 3. In search of complexity

Introduction

Nicolas Evzonas

8. Gender fluid and fixed: gender and suffering, gender and transformation

Adrienne Harris

9. Gender crossing as caesura versus gender crossing as cut

Dana Amir a) Eva Reichelt Discussion b) Elda Abrevaya Discussion

10. On Trying to Pass off Transphobia as Psychoanalysis and Cruelty as “Clinical Logic”: Gender Dysphoria

Avgi Saketopoulou

Über Autor(innen)

Frances Thomson-Salo, Ph.D., is an adult and child psychoanalyst, European co-chair of the IPA Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies committee, and member of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis Board. She was an Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, specialising in infant mental health.

Marco Posadas, RSW, MSW, PhD is a psychoanalyst based in Toronto, and inaugural chair of the IPA Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies Committee. He received the 2018 Sue Fairbanks Excellence in Psychoanalytic Knowledge Distinguished Lecturer award, the 2022 Distinguished Social Worker for Toronto award, and is the 2024-2025 Antoinette Calabria visiting scholar for the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas.

Silvia R. Acosta, PsyD, PhD is an Argentinian psychoanalyst, member of the SPP and the APC, a member of the IPA Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies Committee, and a co-founder of the FEPAL Working Party on drive constellations and subjectivation processes. She has published psychoanalytic articles and teaches on sexual and gender diversity in Europe and Latin America.