Citation

Cavitch M. J. Psychoanal. Cult. Soc. 2016; 21(3): 256-274.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group -- Palgrave-Macmillan)

DOI

10.1057/pcs.2015.22

PMID

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Abstract

Queer children and LGBT youth often continue to find in the psychotherapeutic setting and the clinical literature an ill-prepared and even aversive reception. Suicidality among such children draws especially sharp attention to the need for better alternatives to current treatment modalities-the focus here is chiefly on the relational area, with its emphasis on the coupling norm and attachment theory-and, more broadly, for the further comprehensive development of queer-and LGBT-affirmative psychoanalytic theory and practice. In advocating for at-risk queer children, I also argue that the queer child is a meaningful transferential figure for the improved lifechances of psychoanalysis itself and for the enhanced role of psychoanalytic theory and practice in the realm of social transformation. © 2016 Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

Language: en

Keywords

Gender; Children; Suicide; Homosexuality; Queer; Relationalism