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Gender Dysphoria
A Therapeutic Model for Working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults
Susan Evans & Marcus Evans
Phoenix Publishing House, 2021
Drawing on many years of clinical experience at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, this book presents a comprehensive therapeutic model for working with children, adolescents and young adults experiencing gender distress.
Rather than advocating predetermined outcomes, the book emphasises careful psychological assessment, developmental understanding and exploratory psychotherapy.
It considers the influence of family relationships, attachment, trauma, neurodevelopmental differences, adolescence and identity formation, arguing that each young person's experience should be understood within the context of their unique psychological development.
The book has become an important contribution to the international discussion on therapeutic approaches to gender distress and has been translated into several languages.
Gender Dysphoria
A Therapeutic Model for Working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults
DISFORIA DE GÉNERO
A Therapeutic Model for Working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults
In Spanish
DYSFORIA PLCIOWA
A Therapeutic Model for Working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults
In Polish
IDENTITY AND THE FOUNDATIONAL MYTH
Psychoanalytic insights into gender dysphoria
Building on more than four decades of clinical experience and psychoanalytic thinking, Identity and the Foundational Myth explores gender distress within the wider context of identity development, unconscious processes, relationships and contemporary culture
Marcus Evans
Karnac Books, 2025
Rather than treating gender identity as an isolated phenomenon, the book examines how identity develops through relationships, unconscious fantasy, developmental experience and the search for meaning. It argues that understanding gender distress requires curiosity, careful assessment and the capacity to think psychologically before reaching conclusions about treatment.
Drawing on psychoanalytic theory and extensive clinical experience, the book considers the emotional, developmental and cultural factors that shape identity, encouraging thoughtful enquiry rather than ideological certainty. It invites readers to consider gender distress within the broader framework of human development, recognising the complexity of identity formation throughout childhood, adolescence and adult life.
The volume includes a Foreword by Ronald Britton and a Preface by Robert Hinshelwood, two of the most respected contemporary psychoanalysts, reflecting the book's contribution to psychoanalytic thinking and the wider discussion of gender identity.
IDENTITY AND THE
FOUNDATIONAL MYTH
Exploring gender distress within the wider context of identity development, unconscious processes, relationships and contemporary culture.
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