Abstract:The authors examine the impact of countertransference in two clinical cases of transgender patients treated by two cisgender analysts who are accustomed to receiving nonconforming gender patients in France and Brazil. The context is that of contemporary views of transphobic countertransference reactions, specifically the work of Griffin Hansbury, who describes these reactions in terms of “unthinkable anxieties.” Like other theorists with expanding notions of countertransference, the authors view transphobia in… Show more
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