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Patricia Gherovici, Ph.D.

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Patricia Gherovici, Ph.D.
Patricia Gherovici, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor. She is the Co-founder and Director of the Philadelphia Lacan Group, Associate Faculty Psychoanalytic Studies Minor, University of Pennsylvania, and Honorary Member of IPTAR in New York City. Her books include: The Puerto Rican Syndrome (Other Press, 2003) winner of the Gradiva Award and the Boyer Prize, Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism (Routledge, 2010), Lacan on Madness: Yes You Can't (with Manya Steinokler, Routledge, 2015), Lacan, Psychoanalysis and Comedy (with Manya Steinokler, Cambridge University press, 2016), and Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference (Routledge, 2017).
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Trans Psychoanalysis and Livable Embodiments

Patricia Gherovici, Ph.D.

Berkeley City Club 2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States

"I had no choice. I would be dead if I hadn't transitioned - I would have killed myself." Drawing on her clinical experience as a psychoanalyst working with gender-variant analysands, Gherovici argues that those compelled to change gender often do it because they are facing the most crucial issues of life and death. What is […]

Trans Realism: Psychoanalysis and the Trans Experience

Patricia Gherovici, Ph.D.

Grace Lavery, Ph.D.

Virtual Event Virtual Event

 “The RealReal in Psychoanalysis and in the Trans Experience” Patricia Gherovici “Imagine denying your core and soul.” (p. 3) “If I become a woman I will be my real self.” (p.182) “I think it’s much easier for a trans woman or a trans man who authentically kind of looks and plays the role.” (p. 197) […]