{"title":"The Case Study of Two Girls with Gender Dysphoria","authors":"J. Beatrice","doi":"10.1080/00797308.2023.2166774","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper presents the psychoanalysis of two girls, aged five and 11, both self-described as boys. The first case depicts the incoherence and discontinuity of a core sense of being female with depersonalization, identity confusion, and self-sacrifice. The second case describes gender role identification conflicts. Both children presented as males to protect a disavowed female self. However, their etiology was distinctly different. Gender dysphoria proved to be highly complex. Reliance on the developmental lines of self and gender informed clinical interventions. Merger and twinship transferences were essential for establishing a stable personal identity for these children.","PeriodicalId":45962,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","volume":"76 1","pages":"85 - 106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00797308.2023.2166774","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"PSYCHIATRY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT This paper presents the psychoanalysis of two girls, aged five and 11, both self-described as boys. The first case depicts the incoherence and discontinuity of a core sense of being female with depersonalization, identity confusion, and self-sacrifice. The second case describes gender role identification conflicts. Both children presented as males to protect a disavowed female self. However, their etiology was distinctly different. Gender dysphoria proved to be highly complex. Reliance on the developmental lines of self and gender informed clinical interventions. Merger and twinship transferences were essential for establishing a stable personal identity for these children.
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The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child is recognized as a preeminent source of contemporary psychoanalytic thought. Published annually, it focuses on presenting carefully selected and edited representative articles featuring ongoing analytic research as well as clinical and theoretical contributions for use in the treatment of adults and children. Initiated in 1945, under the early leadership of Anna Freud, Kurt and Ruth Eissler, Marianne and Ernst Kris, this series of volumes soon established itself as a leading reference source of study. To look at its contributors is to be confronted with the names of a stellar list of creative, scholarly pioneers who willed a rich heritage of information about the development and disorders of children and their influence on the treatment of adults as well as children. An innovative section, The Child Analyst at Work, periodically provides a forum for dialogue and discussion of clinical process from multiple viewpoints.