Identity, Gender, and Sexuality

150 Years After Freud

Peter Fonagy, Rainer Krause, Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Peter Fonagy, Rainer Krause, Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9780367106713
• eBook ISBN:
  9780429914706
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

'While Freud opened the door on the formative and motivating power of sexuality, contemporary psychoanalysts, with some notable exceptions, have consigned sexuality to the psychoanalytic closet. This book not only re-opens the door on the broad subject of psychosexuality, but also provides fresh insights into heterosexuality, bisexuality, homosexuality, gender identity disorder, transvestism and transsexualism. This publication brings together some of the leading psychoanalytic authorities from around the globe to consider in depth the complex interweaving of identity, gender and sexuality from theoretical, clinical, historical and research perspectives. The author strongly recommends "Identity, Gender and Sexuality" to those looking for a book that does not pull punches. The reader will find a debate about the relative merits of clinical, empirical, and conceptual research, critical assessments of interdisciplinary findings from infant and child development research, embodied cognitive science, academic psychology, neurobiology, genetics, ethology, and other fields of inquiry, and honest and illuminating psychoanalytic case studies. - Donald Campbell

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Controversies in Psychoanalysis Series: IPA Publications Committee
• Acknowledgements
• About the Editors and Contributors
• Foreword
• 1 Psychosexuality and psychoanalysis: an overview
• 2 Sexuality: a conceptual and historical essay
• Commentary
• 3 Psychodynamic and biographical roots of a transvestite development: clinical and extra-clinical findings from a psychoanalysis
• Commentary
• 4 The issue of homosexuality in psychoanalysis
• Commentary
• 5 Developmental research on childhood gender identity disorder
• Commentary
• 6 Research, research politics, and clinical experience with transsexual patients
• Commentary
• 7 Drive and affect in perverse actions
• Commentary
• 8 Conclusion: future clinical, conceptual, empirical, and interdisciplinary research on sexuality in psychoanalysis
• References and Bibliography
• Index