Termination of a fe/male transsexual patient's analysis
An example of general validity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8971470 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Danielle Quinodoz (53A, Chemin des Fourches1223ColognyGenevaSwitzerland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 83 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 783-798 |
| Publication date | 2002-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7578 • E-ISSN: 1745-8315 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1516/7ulg-83lg-pc08-dntx |
| PMID | 12204164 |
| OpenAlex | W2059727260 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 9 |
The author describes the termination of an analysis, which, while relating to the particular case of a male-to-female transsexual patient, may be relevant to all analysts, particularly those whose patients need to integrate disavowed and split-off parts of themselves. The patient had undergone sex-change surgery at the age of 20. Having lived as a woman thereafter, she had asked for analysis some twenty years later. The author, who discussed the first three years of that analysis in an earlier paper, as well as her hesitation about undertaking it, considers that its termination after seven years illustrates not only the specific problems posed by transsexuals but also the general ones presented by "heterogeneous patients". To the best of her knowledge, this is the first published case history of a transsexual patient who has undergone surgery. In the author's view, the patient has acquired a new sense of internal unity based on a notion of sex differentiation in which mutual respect between the sexes has replaced confusion and mutual hate, and her quality of life has improved. On the general level, this termination shows how the reduction of paranoid-schizoid anxieties and the reintegration of split-off parts of the personality lead, as the depressive position is worked through, to a better toleration of internal contradictions, a new sense of cohesion of the self and a diminution of the fear of madness
Common sense · Confusion · Epistemology · Gender dysphoria · Personality · Psychoanalysis · Toleration · Transgender · Transsexual · Art, Politics, and Modernism · German Social Sciences and History · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 10 |
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| Citations per year | 0,48 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2023 (19) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |