Colette Chiland

Exploring Transsexualism (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses on transsexualism and the definitions of sex and gender. It also discusses the problems of "reassigning" one's sex and argues that surgery alone cannot fix the situation. It acknowledges the difficulty of the subject and warns the readers against judgements being made.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 100
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429913488
• Artikelnr.: 56835190

Autorenporträt

Colette Chiland is Professor Emeritus at Rene Descartes University of Paris; Psychiatrist-in-chief at the Alfred Binet Center and a Training Analyst of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society. She is also an Honorary President of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP). She has written numerous books and contributed papers to various journals. Colette read philosophy and psychology, then medicine and psychiatry at the University of Paris. She taught clinical psychology at La Sorbonne, then at Universite Paris Descartes, and is training analyst at the Paris Psychoanalytical Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Transsexualism: what's new?
From the intersexed to transsexuals
The psychoanalyst and the transsexual
Treatment
How the transsexual's mind works
Masculinity and femininity
The development of gender identity
A testing time for us
Conclusion