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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Vaughan, Susan C.
• Levine, Susan S.

Titel

The dignity of one’s experiences: dignity and indignity in the lives of LGBT people

Ist Teil von

• Dignity Matters, 2016, p.101-117

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This chapter shows that leading a dignified life as an LGBT person means weathering witting and unwitting assaults created by living as a minority in society, as well as assaults on the self within one's family of origin. It argues that people must carefully clear away the wreckage of the past with regard to problematic psychoanalytic theory and practice in order to make psychoanalysis useful, relevant, and, most importantly, not harmful to patients who are gender and sexual minorities. Until parents can look at their baby in a nursery and wonder if that child might be gay or lesbian or transgender and see the wealth of possible outcomes with a sense of acceptance, LGBT people will continue to face what is perhaps the biggest indignity of all: that of not being seen for who one really is. Some psychoanalysts who are transgender have entered psychoanalytic training and shared their personal developmental experiences of being transgender.