Gender, Identifications, and Identities considers the increasing visibility of sexual and gender diversity and reflects on how this is felt within psychoanalysis.

The international contributors focus on identifications, gender, and identity, including gender and sexuality in psychic development, as well as the link between identifications, body, and gender. The book also considers how gender fluidity can be a challenge for approaching the coexistence of different states of the self, as well as transference-countertransference experiences and implications, working through and implications for theory and technique. It offers an opportunity to air conflicting psychoanalytic views and rethink established concepts.

Gender, Identifications, and Identities will be key reading for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists in practice and in training. It will also be of interest to academics of psychoanalytic studies and gender studies.

“In this highly topical book, renowned psychoanalytical experts present their knowledge and clinical experiences of the connections between body, mental development, sexuality, (fluid) gender, identifications and identities from different perspectives in a fascinating new way.” - Heribert Blass, the incoming IPA president

“In this highly topical book, renowned psychoanalytical experts present their knowledge and clinical experiences of the connections between body, mental development, sexuality, (fluid) gender, identifications and identities from different perspectives in a fascinating new way.” - Heribert Blass, the incoming IPA president

Frances Thomson-Salo, Ph.D., is a training adult and child psychoanalyst and the European co-chair of the IPA Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies Committee.

Luca Bruno, Ph.D, is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in Milan. He is a member of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society and the IPA European Committee on Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies.

Eva Reichelt is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in Berlin. She is a member of the German Psychoanalytical Association and the IPA European Committee on Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies.