Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Development and mental health: the issue of difference in atypical gender identity development / Peter Wilson
  • Reflections on the nature of the "atypical gender identity organization" / Domenico Di Ceglie
  • Associated psychopathology in children with gender identity disorder / Kenneth J. Zucker
  • The complexity of early trauma: representation and transformation / Susan W. Coates & Mary Sue Moore
  • Biological contributions to atypical gender identity development / Caroline Brain
  • The contribution of social anthropology to the understanding of atypical gender identity in childhood / Allison James
  • Some developmental trajectories towards homosexuality, transvestism, and transsexualism: mental health implications: Homosexual experience during adolescence / Fiona Tasker
  • Transvestism during adolescence / Susan J. Bradley
  • Transsexualism during adolescence / Peggy Cohen-Kettenis, Stephanie H.M. van Goozen, & Leo Cohen.
  • Gender identity disorder, depression, and suicidal risk / Hartwin Sadowski & Barbara Goffney
  • Gender identity development and eating disorders / Gianna Williams & Richard Graham
  • Child sexual abuse and gender identity development: some understanding from work with girls who have been sexually abused / Judith Trowell
  • Intersex disorder in childhood and adolescence: gender identity, gender role, sex assignment, and general mental health / Adrian Sutton & Jane Whittaker
  • Management and therapeutic aims in working with children and adolescents with gender identity disorders, and their families / Demenica Di Ceglie
  • Case illustrations: "Jack" and "Jill" : two children with gender identity disorders / Leslie Ironside
  • "Teresa": an adolescent girl who wants to become a man
  • A psychoanalytic exploration / Mauro Morra.
  • "Phil": helping a transsexual teenager to engage in self-exploration / Paulina Reyes
  • "Lesley"; the struggle of a teenager with an intersex disorder to find an identity
  • its impact on the "I" of the beholder / Adrian Sutton
  • "William": working with the family about unresolved mourning and secrecy / Domenico De Ceglie
  • "Harriet": a child in a primary school / Karine George
  • Children of transsexual parents: research and clinical overview / Richard Green
  • Mental health issues and some principles of management / Domenicao Di Ceglie
  • Issues facing the child of a transsexual parent / Mary Lightfoot.
  • 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.