Trust in Uncertainty: The Therapeutic Structure of Possibility, Turning Points, and the Future of Psychotherapy with Transgender, Nonbinary, and Gender-diverse Individuals

Q3 Social Sciences

Studies in Gender and Sexuality Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI:10.1080/15240657.2022.2072572

K. Rachlin

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Therapists are conduits of possibility as we hold a vision of what is possible for people who come to us seeking support and change. Gender specialists help transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse (TGNB) people to increase the possibilities in their lives. Therapists facilitate positive change—on an individual level, through therapeutic practice, and on a macrolevel, by being involved in the community of psychotherapists and in the field of transgender health. As we approach our work, we reflect upon the limitations of our knowledge and vision to be realistic and to allow for possibility. We respect uncertainty on an individual level because people are complex and change over time as the world around them changes, and we respect uncertainty on a cultural level because the language and concepts of gender change and evolve across time and place. Cases are presented to illustrate the use of psychotherapy to address uncertainty and create possibility for TGNB people.

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对不确定性的信任:跨性别、非二元和性别多样化个体的可能性、转折点和心理治疗的未来的治疗结构

治疗师是可能性的管道，因为我们对来找我们寻求支持和改变的人的可能性有一个愿景。性别专家帮助跨性别、非二元性和性别多样性(TGNB)的人增加他们生活的可能性。治疗师促进积极的改变——在个人层面上，通过治疗实践;在宏观层面上，通过参与心理治疗师社区和跨性别健康领域。当我们接近我们的工作，我们反思我们的知识和视野的局限性是现实的，并允许可能性。我们尊重个人层面的不确定性，因为人是复杂的，随着周围世界的变化而变化，我们尊重文化层面的不确定性，因为性别的语言和概念随着时间和地点的变化而变化和发展。案例提出，以说明使用心理治疗，以解决不确定性，并为TGNB人创造可能性。

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Studies in Gender and Sexuality Social Sciences-Gender Studies

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期刊介绍： Beginning in the final two decades of the 20th century, the study of gender and sexuality has been revived from a variety of directions: the traditions of feminist scholarship, postclassical and postmodern psychoanalytic theory, developmental research, and cultural studies have all contributed to renewed fascination with those powerfully formative aspects of subjectivity that fall within the rubric of "gender" and "sexuality." Clinicians, for their part, have returned to gender and sexuality with heightened sensitivity to the role of these constructs in the treatment situation, including the richly variegated ways in which assumptions about gender and sexuality enter into our understandings of "normality" and "pathology."