Clinical notes on a case of transvestism in a child
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8972045 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Luisa C Busch de Ahumada (Av. Las Heras 3898, 3 “H” 1425 Buenos Aires, Argentina ‐, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 84 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 291-313 |
| Publication date | 2003-04-01 |
| 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/tagm-lmyb-n2qb-7825 |
| PMID | 12856353 |
| OpenAlex | W2002914886 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 3 |
This clinical presentation describes the therapeutic process of a 5‐year‐old male child presenting as a main symptom quasi‐delusional feminine enactments starting at an early age, which persisted for most of his five‐year treatment. This symptom was understood in terms of an attempt at restitution, itself the result of being confronted with an autistic structure stemming from a series of traumatic incidents during the oral phase: his mother's pregnancy, abortion, depression and subsequent three‐month absence at the end of his first year of life. The clinical material, drawings included, illustrates the interplay of oral, anal and phallic levels, with enactment predominant in sessions. The oral traumatic situation initially led to anal‐manic play, then to quasi‐delusional female personifications in sessions, later surfacing as an annihilating ‘black hole’. All the above issued into a broad enacted phallic‐genital unfolding that dramatised an oral‐genital primal scene, in the course of which he managed to structure his male identity. Near the end of the analytic process the analysand reworked the ‘stages’ of the link to the analyst. To end, based on the clinical material, the respective participation of the early and the late Oedipus complex is examined
Developmental psychology · Human sexuality · Phallic stage · Presentation (obstetrics · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Sexual identity · Autism Spectrum Disorder Research · Gender Studies · Medicine · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Surgery
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2014 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |