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Strange and Otherwise Unaccountable Actions”

Category, Conundrum, and Trans Identities

Bibliographic Data

ID8332124
AuthorsBarbara Fibel Marcus (Yale University), Susan McNamara (0009-0006-4543-4410)
Year2013
Volume61
Issue1
Pages45-66
Publication date2013-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-0651 • E-ISSN: 1941-2460
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0003065112468489
PMID23197166
OpenAlexW2322817736
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited34

Despite recognizing that gender identity is a complex compromise formation, psychotherapists struggle to tolerate gender variance. We still tend to favor binary gender identities and clear developmental lines, rather than embracing a stance of subversive curiosity about the variability and fluidity of gender in our patients. When gender identity is fluid or ambiguous, countertransferential affective disturbances can arise that meld states of abjection and excitement, challenging theoretical constructs and threatening therapeutic neutrality. Case material from the treatment of a female-to-male trans person is presented from the perspective of the transference-countertransference matrix

Aesthetics · Art · Compromise · Countertransference · Curiosity · Epistemology · Gender identity · Identity (music) · Neutrality · Perspective (graphical) · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy

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Citations per year0,33
Citation span2014 - 2025 (12)
Citation velocityrecent
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