Sue Evans and Marcus Evans
In this episode, Susan Evans, a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and Marcus Evans, a psychoanalyst, discuss their latest book, Gender Dysphoria: A Therapeutic Model for Work ing with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults (Phoenix, 2021) wherein they analyse some of the psychoanalytic ideas regarding gender dysphoria and the political and social climate surrounding transgender identity today. Covering some of the issues relevant to gender dysphoria, Evans and Evans cover the mental health co-morbidities often conterminous to adolescent and childhood gender dysphoria as well as adjacent familial and social issues that inform the exploration of gender identity. Detailing some of the frameworks for delivering therapy—to include its complexities—Evans and Evans note that oftentimes adolescent gender dysphoria is fraught with anxiety related to the subject’s inability to tolerate ambiguity and confusion and they detail how best to work with adolescents and helping them accept who they are.
Sue Evans and Marcus Evans
Excellent interview. They make such good clear sense, I cannot understand how anyone could not see this. I guess though it is all those other agendas, and there are many. And many stakeholders in the trans movement, principally the profiteers where the money to fund the influence, the brain-washing, comes from. With an army of foot soldiers - predators, paedophiles and perverts, spiteful incels, misogynists and virtue signalling pick-me girls - all willing to work for free.
Whew! More rational psychotherapists. Refreshing to me like a clean, cool ocean breeze. I would hate to see fine therapists routed out of the field due to societal pressures to conform to really egregious magical thinking. For parents to abdicate their roles due to economic necessity is a topic that needs more exploration. The disaster of being raised without firm boundaries has such a multitude of consequences.