Patricia Gherovici

Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference

by Patricia Gherovici

Drawing from the author's clinical work with gender-variant patients, Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference argues for a depathologizing of the transgender... (more)

Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Sexualities: From Feminism to Trans*

Edited by Patricia Gherovici, Manya Steinkoler

Transcending the sex and gender dichotomy, rethinking sexual difference, transgenerational trauma, the decolonization of gender, non-Western identity politics, trans*/feminist debates, embodiment,... (more)

Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious

Edited by Patricia Gherovici, Christopher Christian

Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious demonstrates that psychoanalytic principles can be applied successfully in disenfranchised Latino populations, refuting the misguided... (more)

Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism

by Patricia Gherovici

"I have the worst birth defect a woman can have: I was born with a penis and a pair of testicles."

Thus we meet Ella, who shares her reason for starting psychoanalysis and whose statement embodies... (more)

Lacan on Madness: Madness, Yes You Can't

Edited by Patricia Gherovici, Manya Steinkoler

This new collection of essays by distinguished international scholars and clinicians will revolutionize your understanding of madness. Essential for those on both sides of the couch eager to make... (more)

Lacan, Psychoanalysis and Comedy

Edited by Patricia Gherovici, Manya Steinkoler

This collection of essays explores laughter, humor, and the comic from a psychoanalytic perspective. Edited by two leading practicing psychoanalysts and with original contributions from Lacanian... (more)