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- Title
The double ‘double bind’ of transgender persons and ways to overcome it.
- Authors
Frati, Fulvio
- Abstract
In the transition to affirm their gender identity transgender persons sometimes get ‘entangled’ in a sort of ‘double double bind’: one based on the contraposition of anatomical sex and gender identity, and the other on the divergence between individual gender expectations and those manifested in the family and social environment. In order to help subjects deal with a situation which is often the source of significant personal distress, the author proposes psychological treatment or psychotherapy based on the so-called ‘affirmative gender model of informed consent’ from the Italian model of Psychoanalysis of Relationships, supplemented by contributions from the ‘Theory of non-linear dynamic complex systems’, Infant Research, from other authors in the psychoanalytic field, Neurophenomenology, and lastly, from the psychoanalytic field concept introduced in the last century by the Barangers and later developed by others, including Italian authors.
- Subjects
GENDER identity; GENDER expression; TRANSGENDER people; GENDER; PSYCHOTHERAPY
- Publication
Ricerca Psicoanalitica, 2024, Vol 35, Issue 2, p471
- ISSN
1827-4625
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4081/rp.2024.791