From Tomboy to Amazon: The Psychoanalytic Treatment of Two Girls, Unhappy with Their Gender Identity, and the Impact of Title IX

IF 0.4 4区心理学 Q4 PSYCHIATRY

Psychoanalytic Study of the Child Pub Date : 2022-10-26 DOI:10.1080/00797308.2022.2132743

F. Meisel

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Two six-year-old girls, inhibited socially and constrained in their physical life, were successfully analyzed before and after the effects of the 1970’s Woman’s Movement and Title IX took hold. Surprisingly, despite the significant changes in society from one era to another, both children were unhappy with their identified genders in comparison to boys and they both identified gender as the root cause of their unhappiness. Both children began their treatment with scenarios designed to communicate their concerns, discover what analysis was about, and in particular, assess who I was and who I could be. In the transference-countertransference enactments, they reexperienced the anguish that had traced their downward spiral toward despair. Fathers who were perceived as critical, menacing, and uncaring were held responsible for the misgivings about gender and desire that confounded their children and damaged their self-esteem. Transformations for both children were reflected in the new paradigms they discovered and created within the real relationship with a safe and caring man.

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从假小子到亚马逊:两个女孩的精神分析治疗，不满意自己的性别认同，以及第九条的影响

摘要:本文成功地分析了两个在社交上受到抑制、身体生活受到限制的六岁女孩在1970年代妇女运动和第九条生效之前和之后的生活状况。令人惊讶的是，尽管社会从一个时代到另一个时代发生了重大变化，但与男孩相比，两个孩子都对自己认定的性别不满意，而且他们都认为性别是他们不快乐的根本原因。两个孩子开始接受治疗时，都设计了一些场景来表达他们的担忧，发现分析是关于什么的，尤其是评估我是谁，我可以成为谁。在移情-反移情的表演中，他们重新体验了伴随他们向下螺旋走向绝望的痛苦。那些被认为是挑剔的、威胁的、不关心孩子的父亲被认为要为他们对性别和欲望的担忧负责，这些担忧让他们的孩子感到困惑，损害了他们的自尊。这两个孩子的转变反映在他们在与一个安全和关心的男人的真正关系中发现和创造的新范式中。

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Psychoanalytic Study of the Child PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHOANALYSIS-

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0.90

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20.00%

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期刊介绍： 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.