Gender Policing in the Clinical Setting: Discussion of Sandra Silverman’s “The Colonized Mind: Gender, Trauma, and Mentalization”

Drescher, Jack

doi:10.1080/10481885.2015.991237

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“…There are many complexities to be considered in examining our own responses and reactions, which raises the possibility of confusion within the countertransference. Drescher (2015), in discussing Silverman's paper, used the term gender policing to refer to the ways in which groups and individuals try to regulate appropriate expressions of gender. In commending Silverman's willingness to write openly about her inner reactions, Drescher commented that her work offers many illustrations of countertransference reactions that arise when cisgender therapists treat transgender patients.…”

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“…Using Berne's theory of ego states, it has been useful to consider different positions in the countertransference. However, as Drescher (2015) suggested, it may not be easy to locate ourselves: from the position of the Parent ego state represented by gender policing, from the position of the Child ego state overwhelmed with feelings of confusion that we feel the need to evacuate, or from the sometimes challenging position of the Adult ego state that may not always be a secure position to hold on to in the midst of our internal conflicts.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Being With the Emergence of Transgendered Identity

Blake¹

2017

Transactional Analysis Journal

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The author discusses perspectives on gender formation or diagnosis focusing on ideas from transactional analysis, post-Jungian thinking, and aspects of psychoanalysis to illustrate approaches to working with the emergence of gender. The development of gender is contrasted with viewing it as a biological given. The therapist’s role and the aim of therapy with people who identify with a gender that differs from their assigned gender (gender dysphoria) is considered. A case study illustrates dynamics in this work that can be confusing and confrontative for both client and therapist. In the struggle to provide a solid holding frame, the author suggests that gender diagnosis benefits from supporting clients’ development toward living comfortably and safely in their bodies.

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Section: Diagnosing Countertransferencementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Diagnosing Countertransferencementioning

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Being With the Emergence of Transgendered Identity

Blake¹

2017

Transactional Analysis Journal

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2020

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

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Rethinking gender diversity: Transgender and gender nonconforming people and gender as constellation

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Boncori

2023

Gender Work & Organization

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In this article, we challenge the mainstream view of gender rooted in binary cisnormativity and suggest that the gender frameworks used to inform organizational research and practice are inadequate with respect to the range of transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) identities. We employ Hacking's “dynamic nominalism” to illustrate how evolving classifications of TGNC people operate as a discriminating factor that threatens their lived experiences. As an alternative to the binary cisnormative metaphor of gender as a spectrum, we adopt a more inclusive metaphor of a gender constellation and sketch out its potential conceptualization that promotes multidimensional, non‐hierarchical, and dynamic approaches to gender diversity.

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Gender Policing in the Clinical Setting: Discussion of Sandra Silverman’s “The Colonized Mind: Gender, Trauma, and Mentalization”

Cited by 4 publications

References 19 publications

Being With the Emergence of Transgendered Identity

Being With the Emergence of Transgendered Identity

The man I am trying to be is not me

Rethinking gender diversity: Transgender and gender nonconforming people and gender as constellation

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