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Chapter 10 - Psychotherapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2020

Christina Richards
Affiliation:
Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health
James Barrett
Affiliation:
Charing Cross Gender Identity Clinic
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Summary

Psychotherapy with gender diverse people will proceed much as with cisgender people and for the same range of issues – be it bereavement, job issues, childhood trauma, relationship issues, mood disorders, psychosis, personality difficulties, and so on – although with the usual mannered inflection1 one would expect for any form of diversity. The usual principles of establishing good rapport and then utilising the appropriate modality with the client to address the presenting issue as well as any intersecting issues will apply. Naturally this will be the case whether one is a psychiatrist undertaking psychotherapy, a medical psychotherapist, a counselling psychologist, a clinical psychologist, or a psychotherapist. Given most readers will be entirely competent with such things, we will not needlessly detain ourselves here with a recap, but instead will move directly to a consideration of those matters which arise in psychotherapy which directly pertain to gender diverse people, before considering how gender diversity might be approached from the position of the more common psychotherapeutic modalities.

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Further Reading

Beattie, M., & Lenihan, P. (2018). Counselling skills for working with gender diversity and identity. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.Google Scholar
Lev, A. I. (2004). Transgender emergence. London: Haworth Clinical Practice Press.Google Scholar
Richards, C. (2011). Transsexualism and existentialism. Existential Analysis, 22 (2), 272279.Google Scholar
Richards, C. (2014). Trans and existentialism. In Milton, M. (ed.). Sexuality: Existential perspectives (pp. 217230). Ross-on-Wye: PCCS Books.Google Scholar
Richards, C., & Barker, M. (2013). Sexuality and gender for mental health professionals: A practical guide. London: Sage.Google Scholar

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Kierkegaard, S. (1980 [1844]). The concept of anxiety [trans R. Thomte and A. B. Anderson]. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.Google Scholar
Luft, J., & Ingham, H. (1955). The Johari window: A graphic model of interpersonal awareness. In Luft, J. (1969), Of human interaction (p. 177). Palo Alto, CA: National Press.Google Scholar
Richards, C. (2014). Group therapy and sexuality. In Milton, M. (ed.). Sexuality: Existential perspectives (pp. 265284). Ross-on-Wye: PCCS Books.Google Scholar
Richards, C. (2017). [Monograph]. Trans and sexuality: An existentially-informed ethical enquiry with implications for counselling psychology. London: Routledge.Google Scholar
Tamaki, S. (2013). Hikikomori: Adolescence without end. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.Google Scholar
Zucker, K. (2008). Children with gender identity disorder: Is there a best practice? Neuropsychiatrie de l’enfance et de l’adolescence 56, 358364.Google Scholar

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  • Psychotherapy
  • Christina Richards, James Barrett
  • Book: Trans and Non-binary Gender Healthcare for Psychiatrists, Psychologists, and Other Health Professionals
  • Online publication: 18 August 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108628419.010
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  • Psychotherapy
  • Christina Richards, James Barrett
  • Book: Trans and Non-binary Gender Healthcare for Psychiatrists, Psychologists, and Other Health Professionals
  • Online publication: 18 August 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108628419.010
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  • Psychotherapy
  • Christina Richards, James Barrett
  • Book: Trans and Non-binary Gender Healthcare for Psychiatrists, Psychologists, and Other Health Professionals
  • Online publication: 18 August 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108628419.010
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