British mental healthcare responses to adult homosexuality and gender non-conforming children at the turn of the twenty-first century (2023)
The roots of the recent controversy about how mental health professionals should respond to gender non-conforming children are traced. To make historical sense, this paper distinguishes between epistemological (discursive) and ontological (non-discursive) aspects and describes their features, since 1970. This helps to clarify some of the confusions at the centre of the still heated debate about sexuality and gender identity today. In the concluding discussion, the philosophical resource of critical realism is used to interpret the historical narrative provided. It cautions against the anachronistic tendency to amalgamate the short-lived, and now defunct, experiment of aversion therapy for homosexuality with more recent defences of exploratory psychotherapy. The latter have challenged a different form of experimentation: the bio-medicalisation of gender non-conforming children.
...MoreSimilar Citations
Book
Najmabadi, Afsaneh;
(2014)
Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran
Article
Diederik F Janssen;
(2021)
Melancholia Scytharum: the early modern psychiatry of transgender identification
Book
Peter Goodrich;
Katrin Trüstedt;
(2022)
Laws of Transgression: The Return of Judge Schreber
Book
Peter Hegarty;
(2017)
A Recent History of Lesbian and Gay Psychology: From Homophobia to LGBT
Article
M. Hicks;
(2019)
Hacking the Cis-tem
Article
Sandra Eder;
(2018)
Gender and Cortisone: Clinical Practice and Transatlantic Exchange in the Medical Management of Intersex in the 1950s
Article
Jennings, Rebecca;
(2008)
“The Most Uninhibited Party They'd Ever Been To”: The Postwar Encounter between Psychiatry and the British Lesbian, 1945--1971
Article
Helen Spandler;
Sarah Carr;
(2022)
Lesbian and bisexual women's experiences of aversion therapy in England
Thesis
Eder, Sandra;
(2011)
The Birth of Gender: Clinical Encounters with Hermaphroditic Children at Johns Hopkins (1940--1956)
Book
Greta LaFleur;
Masha Raskolnikov;
Anna Kłosowska;
(2021)
Trans Historical: Gender Plurality Before the Modern
Book
Alison Li;
(2023)
Wondrous Transformations: A Maverick Physician, the Science of Hormones, and the Birth of the Transgender Revolution
Book
Downing, Lisa;
Morland, Iain;
Sullivan, Nikki;
(2014)
Fuckology: Critical Essays on John Money's Diagnostic Concepts
Article
Ketil Slagstad;
(2022)
Bureaucratizing Medicine: Creating a Gender Identity Clinic in the Welfare State
Thesis
Michael Pfeiffer;
(2016)
Whose Gender? Whose Identity? Trans Medicine, Psychiatry, and the Symbolic Order
Book
Forth, Christopher E.;
Crozier, Ivan;
(2005)
Body Parts: Critical Explorations in Corporeality
Book
Schechter, Kate;
(2014)
Illusions of a Future: Psychoanalysis and the Biopolitics of Desire
Book
Renato Foschi;
Marco Innamorati;
(2024)
A Critical History of Psychotherapy, Volume 2
Article
Newcombe, Suzanne;
(2007)
Stretching for Health and Well-Being: Yoga and Women in Britain, 1960--1980
Book
Amy Milne-Smith;
(2022)
Out of his mind: Masculinity and mental illness in Victorian Britain
Book
Ben Barres;
Nancy Hopkins;
(2018)
The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist
Be the first to comment!