Gender Dysphoria: a therapeutic approach

The issue of Gender Identity has become a polarizing focus for arguments in society, in families, in playgrounds. Following on from the release of their book Gender Dysphoria: A Therapeutic Model for Working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults published last year. Marcus and Susan Evans will be in discussion, exploring the impact of these issues on development, how to hold on to a thoughtful and considered response to provide space to understand what might be behind the confusion, the pressures, the search for somewhere to fit in and feel we belong.

The presentation will be followed by a panel discussion with questions from the audience, where we will be joined by Dr Phil Osborne, Consultant in Medical Psychotherapy.

Marcus Evans is a Psychoanalyst with the British Psychoanalytical Society. He worked in mental health services and as an adult psychotherapist in the NHS for 40 years. For several years he was Clinical Lead of the Adult and Adolescent Departments at the Tavistock & Portman NHSFT. He is the author of Making Room for Madness in Mental Health and Psychoanalytic Thinking in Mental Health Settings.

Susan Evans is a Psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She worked for nearly 40 years in a variety of mental health services in the NHS, including the national gender identity service for children. She now has a private practice in Southeast London. She is a member of the British Psychotherapy Foundation, the London Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Service, and is registered with the British Psychoanalytic Council.

Dr Phil Osborne is a Consultant Psychiatrist in Medical Psychotherapy, working within a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies service and General Community mental health services in Teesside and North Yorkshire.

Dr Anuradha Menon is a Psychoanalyst with The British Psychoanalytical Society and a Consultant in Liaison psychiatry and Medical Psychotherapy in Leeds.