Current Concepts in Transgender Identity / Edition 1

by Dallas Denny

Overview

First published in 1998. This meaningful study looks at the transsexual experience from the point of view of those that are living experts, those that live transsexualism or cross-dressing and have been directly affected.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815317937
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/01/1997
Series:	Garland Gay and Lesbian Studies , #11
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	452
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction. Part I: Affect in the Psychoanalytic Literature. Affect in Freud's Work. An Overall View of the Psychoanalytic Literature Since Freud. Part II: Clinical Practice in Psychoanalysis: Structures and Processes. Affect in Clinical Structures. Affect, the Psychoanalytic Process and the Oedipus Complex. Part III: Theoretical Study: Affect, Language and Discourse: Negative Hallucination. Affect and the Two Topographical Models. Draft for a Theoretical Model: The Process. Conclusion.

Editorial Reviews

Twenty-four articles (almost all of them published for the first time) discuss research and treatment issues as well as historical, cultural and psychological perspectives. Among the contents are mythological, historical, and crosscultural aspects of transsexualism; rethinking Christine Jorgensen; gender and genitals; therapeutic issues in working with transgendered clients; hormonal therapy; a grounded theory approach to cross-dressing and sex-changing; and gender identity and sexual orientation. An appendix addresses the empowerment of a community. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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