Gender Dysphoria

A Therapeutic Model for Working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults

Susan Evans
Karnac Books
272 pages
ISBN: 9781912691784
April 2021

This book is aimed primarily at clinicians working in the field to provide a model for understanding, assessing, and treating gender dysphoria. The model uses a psychoanalytic framework to help explain disturbed states of mind and how psychic defences can be enlisted unconsciously to avoid overwhelming psychic pain. This offers professionals a way of trying to think with, and offer understanding to, their trans identifying clients.