Identity, gender, and sexuality 150 years after Freud (Karnac, 2009)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-216) and index
'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 fro
Psychosexuality and psychoanalysis : An overview / Peter Fonagy -- Sexuality : A conceptual and historical essay / André E. Haynal ; Commentary / Sverre Varvin -- Psychodynamic and biographical roots of a transvestite development : Clinical and extra-clinical findings from a psychoanalysis / Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber ; Commentary / Linda C. Mayes -- The issue of homosexuality in psychoanalysis / Richard C. Friedman ; Commentary / Anne-Marie Sandler -- Developmental research on childhood gender identity disorder / Susan Coates ; Commentary / Sheila Spensley -- Research, research politics, and clinical experience with transsexual patients / Freidmann Pfäfflin ; Commentary / Peter Fonagy -- Drive and affect in perverse actions / Rainer Krause ; Commentary / Rudi Vermote -- Conclusion : Future clinical, conceptual, empirical, and interdisciplinary research on sexuality in psychoanalysis / Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber