Representations and Narratives of F to M Gender Dysphoric Subjects: Self, Body and Psycho-Traumatology in Comparison with M to F Transsexualism
Abstract
:Introduction
Materials and Methods
Participants
Research methods and instruments
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- Integrate, for images that appear as complete representations, providing clear indications of a good quality answer;
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- Reached/ Attested, for those representations that, although starting from a partial tendency, reach an integrity that must take origin into account;
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- Partial, whose expressiveness remains linked to the lack of entirety with the related diagnostic implications;
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- Fragmentary, understandable not only as not integrated, but also as part of a set whose function or existential sense cannot ignore the integrative contact between the parts, in the specific cases separated as for spaltung.
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- Inverted projection: those processes in which the apperceptive distortion is at the highest levels, tracing paranoid levels.
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- Simple projection: in this mechanism, the inversion and the rigidity of the previous one is missing, it foresees a state of tension derived from experiences of sanction, whose reiteration is independent from the fact by which the situation is known to the others.
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- Sensitization: hyper-receptivity to certain stimuli, due to an increased receptive alertness, occurs when an object (stimulus) affects a predisposing pattern of a given reaction requiring high levels of excitement.
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- Exteriorization: refers to processes of preconscious order, which the subject could dispose of without breaking from deep mental states with rigidity.
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- Cognitive perception: the simple phenomenal detection of graphic traits and manifest meanings.
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- organizes and controls the mode of perception;
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- maintains the projective barriers against disturbing external/ internal stimuli;
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- warns the reality (conative action) and emits warning signs (anxiety);
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- has the ability to self-regulate by promoting tolerance to frustration, adaptation and defenses;
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- has autonomous functions;
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- has the capacity for partial and general self-exclusion.
Results
Discussions
Conclusions
Conflict of interest disclosure
Compliance with ethical standards
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Merlo, E.M. Representations and Narratives of F to M Gender Dysphoric Subjects: Self, Body and Psycho-Traumatology in Comparison with M to F Transsexualism. J. Mind Med. Sci. 2021, 8, 108-119. https://doi.org/10.22543/7674.81.P108119
Merlo EM. Representations and Narratives of F to M Gender Dysphoric Subjects: Self, Body and Psycho-Traumatology in Comparison with M to F Transsexualism. Journal of Mind and Medical Sciences. 2021; 8(1):108-119. https://doi.org/10.22543/7674.81.P108119
Chicago/Turabian StyleMerlo, Emanuele Maria. 2021. "Representations and Narratives of F to M Gender Dysphoric Subjects: Self, Body and Psycho-Traumatology in Comparison with M to F Transsexualism" Journal of Mind and Medical Sciences 8, no. 1: 108-119. https://doi.org/10.22543/7674.81.P108119
APA StyleMerlo, E. M. (2021). Representations and Narratives of F to M Gender Dysphoric Subjects: Self, Body and Psycho-Traumatology in Comparison with M to F Transsexualism. Journal of Mind and Medical Sciences, 8(1), 108-119. https://doi.org/10.22543/7674.81.P108119