A stranger in my own body
Subtitle: atypical gender identity development and mental health
By: edited by Domenico Di Ceglie with David Freedman ; foreword by John Money
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2018
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780429480492
Subjects: Gender identity disorders in children; Gender identity disorders in adolescence; Troubles de l'identité sexuelle chez l'enfant; Troubles de l'identité sexuelle chez l'adolescent; Gender dysphoria
Description: "This book brings together the thinking of an international group of clinicians, researchers, and professionals from different disciplines and is based primarily on a selection of papers presented at a conference on the same topic held at the Tavistock Centre, London, in November 1996, but with additional original contributions. It presents a dialogue amongst the various perspectives that can be taken about atypical gender identity development and their relevance to mental health in children and adolescents. The book is aimed at a multidisciplinary professional readership and interested lay people."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: COVER; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CONTENTS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORDPREFACE; 1. Development and mental health: the issue of difference in atypical gender identity development; 2. Reflections on the nature of the ""atypical gender identity organization""; 3. Associated psychopathology in children with gender identity disorder; 4. The complexity of early trauma: representation and transformation; 5. Biological contributions to atypical gender identity development; 6. The contribution of social anthropology to the understanding of atypical gender identity in childhood; title: 7. Some developmental trajectories towards homosexuality, transvestism, and transsexualism: mental health implications8. Gender identity disorder, depression, and suicidal risk; 9. Gender identity development and eating disorders; 10. Child sexual abuse and gender identity development: some understanding from work with girls who have been sexually abused; 11. Intersex disorder in childhood and adolescence: gender identity, gender role, sex assignment, and general mental health; title: 12. Management and therapeutic aims in working with children and adolescents with gender identity disorders, and their families13. Case illustrations; 14. Children of transsexual parents; GLOSSARY; APPENDIX A: Gender Identity Disorders in Children and Adolescents Guidance for Management. The Royal College of Psychiatrists (Introduction by Peter Hill); APPENDIX B: The Gender Identity Development Unit at the Portman Clinic, London; APPENDIX C: Mermaids; REFERENCES; INDEX