The Resolution of a Transsexual Wish in a Five-Year-Old Boy

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ID8334702
AuthorsLORETTA LOEB (1908 S.W. Terrace Drive Portland, Oregon 97201), Loretta R Loeb, Morton Shane (1908 S.W. Terrace Drive Portland, Oregon 97201)
Year1982
Volume30
Issue2
Pages419-434
Publication date1982-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-0651 • E-ISSN: 1941-2460
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/000306518203000205
PMID6927003
OpenAlexW2064556842
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited7

The brief truncated psychoanalytic treatment of a transsexual boy described in this paper demonstrates the development of transference reactions and their subsequent resolution. The analytic situation allowed this young patient to live out again his relationship with his parents in his relationship with the analyst, to recover from wishing to be a member of the female sex, and to work through his conflicted symbiosis with his mother. Carlos became able to individuate and disidentify from her into a separate male child, in order to be able to identify with, and accept, his own biological and psychological maleness. It is to be hoped that our success with this patient will encourage others to treat and study children suffering from gender identity problems via the psychoanalytic approach

Aesthetics · Art · Gender identity · Identity (music) · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychotherapist · Resolution (logic) · Sociology · Transgender · Transsexual · Wish · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Psychology · Psychology and Mental Health · Social Psychology

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