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Theorizing Transgender Identity for Clinical Practice

A New Model for Understanding Gender
  • ISBN-13: 9781785927652
  • Publisher: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
  • By S.J. Langer
  • Price: AUD $74.99
  • Stock: 2 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 16/04/2019
  • Format: Paperback (105.00mm X 150.00mm) 240 pages Weight: 460g
  • Categories: Psychology [JM]
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Providing new approaches for exploring gender identity and expression, this book is idealfor clinical practice with transgender and gender nonconforming/diverse clients.Importantly, it moves beyond the medical model to advance an understanding oftransgender subjectivity as a natural variation of gender in humans.The book deepens understanding of the developmental trajectory of trans and gendernon-conforming individuals over their lifespan, before and beyond transition, by offeringnew theories on gender. Drawing on theories from a range of different fields includingpsychoanalysis, philosophy, neuroscience, consciousness studies, trauma therapy, sextherapy, gender theory, disability studies and trans studies, it illustrates how informedclinical practice can recognise the complexity of gender identity and expression. Withchapters on the understanding of core gender through the Free Energy Principle, thefoundations of gender in consciousness, a gender algorithm, trauma, mirroring, andsexual functioning, this book works to provide a superior method of clinical practice thatcan better serve trans communities and our understanding of gender across thepopulation.
Introduction; Preface; 1. Being and knowing; 2. Foundations of Consciousness and Gender; 3. Mirroring Recognition; 4. Gender, Terminable and Interminable; 5. Accommodating for Bodies; 6. Trauma, Trans and Temporality; Epilogue; References; Images
'Most literature for therapists about transgender mental health focuses on cultural competency. This book goes beyond "Trans 101," exploring in much more depth the development of the gendered self and the role of gender in consciousness. With roots in both psychoanalytic and academic worlds, Langer provides clinicians with new ways of theorizing gender that both benefit from these traditions and push them forward.' - Laura Erickson-Schroth, MD, MA, LGBTQ psychiatrist and writer (Trans Bodies Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community and "You're in the Wrong Bathroom!" and 20 Other Myths and Misconceptions About Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming People)
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