The Red Clinic is proud to present this discussion on contemporary clinical approaches to working with trans-identified individuals, which took place online on 24th July 2023.
Do psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic therapists have something substantive to contribute to trans people? ‘I doubt,’ writes McKenzie Wark expressing a popular opinion among trans-identified individuals, ‘that psychoanalysis has anything to offer trans people…it has the worst record [of] gatekeeping us, dismissing us, or practicing conversion therapy on us.’ Other trans scholars, like Kadji Amin, are seeing emerging possibilities in pioneering work that is redefining psychoanalysis's basic assumptions on gender. Despite being avowedly anti-psychoanalytic, Amin is surprised to find that some recent work offers a “vision of clinical practice” that makes him and may make other trans-identified individuals too “wish to immediately enter therapy with [certain] psychoanalyst[s].”
This panel joins a growing movement advancing clinical approaches that strengthen rather than undermine the dignity of trans life, and which work towards a psychoanalysis that actively wants trans people. Recognising trans peoples’ deep and warranted distrust against our field, the speakers will offer us a psychoanalysis that can allow itself to be radically reconceived, thereby making itself welcoming to a broader range of subjects.
Avgi Saketopoulou, is a New York City based psychoanalyst with extensive experience around trauma, queerness, gender diversity in adults and children. She teaches at the NYU PostDoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and is also on the faculties of several other psychoanalytic institutes. She is the author of Sexuality Beyond Consent (2023) and co-author (with Ann Pellegrini) of Gender Without Identity (2023)
Geoffrey Hervey is a graduate student, community organizer, and mental health professional from Memphis, TN where they helped found community mental health organizations for marginalised groups.
SJ Langer is a writer and psychotherapist in New York City. He has written extensively on clinical practice, gender theory and research on trans embodiment. He is the author of Theorizing Transgender Identity for Clinical Practice: A New Model for Understanding Gender (2018).
Lara Sheehi, longtime comrade of the Red Clinic, facilitates the discussion. She is co-author with Stephen Sheehi of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (2022).
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