Stranger in My Own Body

Di Ceglie, Domenico

• Foreword -- Preface -- Development and mental health: the issue of difference in atypical gender identity development -- Reflections on the nature of the “atypical gender identity organization” -- Associated psychopathology in children with gender identity disorder -- The complexity of early trauma: representation and transformation -- Biological contributions to atypical gender identity development -- The contribution of social anthropology to the understanding of atypical gender identity in childhood -- Some developmental trajectories towards homosexuality, transvestism, and transsexualism: mental health implications -- Gender identity disorder, depression, and suicidal risk -- Gender identity development and eating disorders -- Child sexual abuse and gender identity development: some understanding from work with girls who have been sexually abused -- Intersex disorder in childhood and adolescence: gender identity, gender role, sex assignment, and general mental health -- Management and therapeutic aims in working with children and adolescents with gender identity disorders, and their families -- Case illustrations -- Children of transsexual parents -- Introduction to "Gender Identity Disorders in Children and Adolescents Guidance for Management" -- The Gender Identity Development Unit at the Portman Clinic, London -- Mermaids