Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; About the editor and contributors; Introduction; PART I Aesthetic tensions; 1 Revisiting the Friends of the Place Blanche: the transgender imaginary through the photographs of Christer StrÃœmholm; 2 The two sleeps of Orlando: transsexuality as caesura or cut; 3 Gender transitions and aesthetic possibilities; 4 Taking (my) time: temporality in transition, queer delays, and being (in the) present; PART II Diagnostic phantasies in the (failed) quest for authenticity; 5 Psychoanalysis needs a sex change.

6 Principles for psychoanalytic work with trans clients7 Realities and myths: the gender affirmative model of care for children and youth; 8 Transition and childhood: questioning the medical approaches; 9 Golden ticket therapy: stigma management among trans men; 10 Borders of belonging: challenges in access to anti-oppressive mental healthcare for Indigenous Latino gender-fluid youth; 11 Transgenderism in Iran; PART III Cultural montage; 12 To return to Schreber: trans literatures as psychoanalysis; 13 Wronging the right-body narrative: on the universality of gender uncertainty.

14 Biopower and the medicalization of gender variance: a Foucauldian analysis of trans subjectivity15 The professional recourse to the adolescent body: the bathroom wars and the limit of thinking in education; Index.