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The Relevance of a Person-Centered Approach to Therapy with Transgendered or Transsexual Clients / Die Bedeutung eines personzentrierten Ansatzes zur Therapie von Transgender-oder transsexuellen Klienten / La importancia del enfoque centrado en la persona para la terapia con clientes transexuales o transgénero / La pertinence de la thérapie dans l'approche centrée sur la personne avec des clients transsexuels ou trans-genre / A relevância de uma abordagem centrada na pessoa com clientes …

2008; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 7; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/14779757.2008.9688459

1752-9182

Tina Livingstone,

Psychoanalysis and Social Critique

Abstract In line with contemporary debate on the demedicalization of distress, this paper advocates that the person-centered approach to counseling and psychotherapy offers more relevance to transgendered or transsexual clients than the present inclusion of Gender Identity Disorder/Transsexualism as a Disorder of Personality and Behavior in American and international psychiatric diagnostic manuals. It explores the feeling of shame experienced by such clients through social stigmatization, the relevance of a phenomenological approach, and their particular need for empathy and affirmation.