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Working Psychoanalytically with Gender Diversity and Sexualities considers and challenges expectations about psychoanalytic work with LGBTQIA+ patients.
List of contents
List of ContributorsSeries editor prefaceIntroductionMarco Posadas, Silvia Acosta and Frances Thomson-SaloPart 1. Gender diversity and sexuality: theoretical revisions that include diversity Introduction Angela Vila-Real1. The Oedipus complex: an expanded approach on sexual and gender polyphonies
Leticia Glocer Fiorini2. Psychosexuality and the problem of (mis)representation: A mentalizing perspective
Liz Allison3. Encountering otherness: On the ability (and inability) for psychic movement within sexual states of mind
Anat Schumann4. Shapes of gender identity: Three stories with an impact
Domenico di CegliePart 2. Psychoanalytic ethics and depathologising gender diversities and sexualities: Intolerance as an unconscious response to violence in analytic fieldIntroductionMarco Posadas 5. The many colours of the rainbow:
Sergio Lewkowicz6. Towards a psychoanalytic ethics-based practice with transgender individuals
Alessandra Lemma7. A history of reception: Falling apart as the ground for learning
Oren GozlanPart 3. In search of complexityIntroductionNicolas Evzonas 8. Gender fluid and fixed: gender and suffering, gender and transformation
Adrienne Harris9. Gender
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
About the author
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.
