Frances Thomson-Salo, Ph.D., is a training adult and child psychoanalyst and the European co-chair of the IPA Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies Committee.

Luca Bruno, Ph.D, is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in Milan. He is a member of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society and the IPA European Committee on Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies.

Eva Reichelt is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in Berlin. She is a member of the German Psychoanalytical Association and the IPA European Committee on Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies.

Acknowledgements

Contributors and editors

Series Preface by Leticia Glocer Fiorini

Introduction by Luca Bruno, Eva Reichelt, and Frances Thomson-Salo

PART I Gender and sexuality in psychic development

Introduction

SIMONETTA BONFIGLIO

1 Sexuality and gender in development: Facets of bedrock and beyond

PAUL LYNCH

2 Neosexualities and gender identity: Is there a psychic place where they originate?

PAOLA MARION

3 An approach to contemporary subjectivities: Identifications, gender, and sexual difference

LETICIA GLOCER FIORINI

PART II Identifications, body, and gender

Introduction

SIRI ERIKA GULLESTAD

4 Body, sexuality, gender: Between identificatory project and desire

TIZIANA BASTIANINI

5 Trans-identifications

LUCA BRUNO

6 Gender identities and identifications in a changing world

VITTORIO LINGIARDI

7 Reclaiming psychic bisexuality: Revisiting Winnicott's "The Split-off Male and Female Elements to be Found Clinically in Men and Women" (1966)

ANAT SCHUMANN

PART III Gender fluidity: A challenge for approaching the coexistence of different states of the self

Introduction

LUISA MARINO-COE

8 Tolerating uncertainty. On reading Blutbuch by Kim de l'Horizon

EVA REICHELT

9 Gender fluidity: White holes in psychoanalytic theory?

MAURO MANICA

10 Gender in movement: The emergent versus the continuous

DANA AMIR

11 Rethinking sexual and gender diversity: Some psychoanalytic reflections

LAURA BALOTTIN AND DAVIDE BRUNO

Index