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Stranger in My Own Body : Atypical Gender Identity Development and Mental Health.
This book brings together the contemporary thinking of a number of international clinicians, researchers and professionals from different disciplines. It shows the various perspectives that can be adopted on atypical gender identity development, and its relevance to mental health in children and ado...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Karnac Books,
1998.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 (; APPENDIX B: The Gender Identity Development Unit at the Portman Clinic, London; APPENDIX C: Mermaids; REFERENCES; INDEX.