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The Wish to Be a Boy: Gender Dysphoria and Identity Confusion in a Self-Identified Transgender Adolescent.
- Source :
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Psychoanalytic Social Work . Jan-Dec2014, Vol. 21 Issue 1/2, p55-74. 20p. - Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- Drawing on recent theory of the origin and development of gender orientation, this article explores the dynamics in the treatment of a 16-year-old female to male transgender adolescent. The debate over whether surgery, to change the body, or psychotherapy, to change the mind, is the appropriate treatment became a central conflict for the therapist in understanding the dynamics of her transgender patient whose goal was to be “cleared for surgery.” [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15228878
- Volume :
- 21
- Issue :
- 1/2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Psychoanalytic Social Work
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 95862009
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/15228878.2013.840245