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Gender Without Identity by Avgi Saketopoulou, Ann Pellegrini
4.0
challenging informative

This was such an interesting experience. While I knew more about psychoanalysis than the average person, I am far from an expert. So, I watched a conference pannel and a couple of interviews before reading this, which was very helpful. This is a really important perspective within the community of psychoanalysts and at least being aware of what is going on there is really relevant to the anti-trans movement we are seeing in multiple countries. I also think that while a lot of the details are particular to psychoanalysis, much of this is actually relevant to psychologists at large and other people who work directly with trans people (be it social workers, educators, etc.) I may revisit this after learning more as well (I was very in it, but unfortunately had a family crisis, then came back to it, so many of my thoughts have been lost to the brain-as-swiss-cheese stages of greif. So perhaps later, I can articulate more). So while I wouldn't recommend this for the casual reader, I would definitely recommend it to people who have this in their wheelhouse or are willing to branch out to it. 

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