Working Psychoanalytically with Gender Diversity and Sexualities

Working Psychoanalytically with Gender Diversity and Sexualities considers and challenges expectations about psychoanalytic work with LGBTQIA+ patients.

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Frances Thomson-Salo, Ph.D., is an adult and child psychoanalyst, European co-chair of the IPA Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies committee, and member of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis Board. She was an Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, specialising in infant mental health.

Marco Posadas, RSW, MSW, PhD is a psychoanalyst based in Toronto, and inaugural chair of the IPA Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies Committee. He received the 2018 Sue Fairbanks Excellence in Psychoanalytic Knowledge Distinguished Lecturer award, the 2022 Distinguished Social Worker for Toronto award, and is the 2024-2025 Antoinette Calabria visiting scholar for the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas.

Silvia R. Acosta, PsyD, PhD is an Argentinian psychoanalyst, member of the SPP and the APC, a member of the IPA Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies Committee, and a co-founder of the FEPAL Working Party on drive constellations and subjectivation processes. She has published psychoanalytic articles and teaches on sexual and gender diversity in Europe and Latin America.

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Working Psychoanalytically with Gender Diversity and Sexualities considers and challenges expectations about psychoanalytic work with LGBTQIA+ patients.

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List of Contributors

Series editor preface

Introduction

Marco Posadas, Silvia Acosta and Frances Thomson-Salo

Part 1. Gender diversity and sexuality: theoretical revisions that include diversity

Introduction

Angela Vila-Real

1. The Oedipus complex: an expanded approach on sexual and gender polyphonies

Leticia Glocer Fiorini

2. Psychosexuality and the problem of (mis)representation: A mentalizing perspective

Liz Allison

3. Encountering otherness: On the ability (and inability) for psychic movement within sexual states of mind

Anat Schumann

4. Shapes of gender identity: Three stories with an impact

Domenico di Ceglie

Part 2. Psychoanalytic ethics and depathologising gender diversities and sexualities: Intolerance as an unconscious response to violence in analytic field

Introduction

Marco Posadas

5. The many colours of the rainbow:

Sergio Lewkowicz

6. Towards a psychoanalytic ethics-based practice with transgender individuals

Alessandra Lemma

7. A history of reception: Falling apart as the ground for learning

Oren Gozlan

Part 3. In search of complexity

Introduction

Nicolas Evzonas

8. Gender fluid and fixed: gender and suffering, gender and transformation

Adrienne Harris

9. Gender

Dana Amir

a) Eva Reichelt Discussion

b) Elda Abrevaya Discussion

10. On Trying to Pass off Transphobia as Psychoanalysis and Cruelty as "Clinical Logic": Gender Dysphoria

Avgi Saketopoulou