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EDITORIAL

Editorial
by Lila Vatteroni

ARTICLES

A research programme for queer studies Queer theory and Harvey Sacks’s Membership Categorization Analysis
by Carmen Dell’Aversano
AbstractA research programme for queer studies Queer theory and Harvey Sacks’s Membership Categorization AnalysisThis paper starts by defining queer as the de-ontoligization of categories and the denaturalization of their performances. Its aim is to map out a research programme for queer studies based on the work of US sociologist Harvey Sacks. This would make it possible to generalize the application of queer theory to the analysis of the repressive consequences of all forms of categorization and to highiligh these repressive effects in a huge variety of social contexts and situations. This would considerably broaden the range of convenience of queer theory.

Keywords: queer theory, queer studies, Harvey Sacks, membership categorization analysis.

Women and drug addiction. A gender perspective on drug experience
by Carla Cabitza and Lila Vatteroni
AbstractWomen and drug addiction. A gender perspective on drug experiencethe purpose of this paper is to examine the issue of drug addiction in women and to highlight the need for a deeper understanding of women drug users. Looking through the findings of the state-of-the-art scientific research, the necessity of adopting a gender-oriented perspective has become widely accepted. However, the direct experience of the authors in a therapeutic community reopens the debate, bringing out critical issues related to the therapeutic relationship with female clients. New questions arose when the authors - as women - found themselves entangled in stereotypical beliefs with the consequent risk to women drug users to be enclosed within deviant and moralised biographies. Presenting a brief qualitative research focused on the drug user’s perspective, the goal of this paper is to promote a debate on the educational and therapeutic role of the treatment providers.

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“Under construction” identity. Feminine Gender Dysphoria in adolescence from a PCP point of view
by Simona LucianiAbstractUnder constructionThis contribution intends to offer a concise review of the state of the art on Gender Dysphoria, with a specific focus on therapy with three adolescent girls. The interest is aimed at understanding how the experience of a body that differs from gender felt to be one’s own ranks – and with what implications – with respect to the construction of oneself, others and the world. Unlike other approaches on the national scene, the PCP contribution lies in proposing an alternative look at the conditions for the intervention. The assumption is that symptom does not represent the starting point for the correct nosographic framework and the accompanying planning along the transition path, but the most elaborative choice in light of possibilities and constraints of the construction system. Considering this premise, a professional understanding of discomfort will be attempted and hypotheses about work’s direction will be prospected for the purpose of change.

Keywords: gender dysphoria, adolescence, choice, transitive diagnosis, psychotherapy.

Gender identity and sexual orientation from a systemic perspective:a proposal for therapeutic intervention
by Riccardo Barsotti and Natalia Savani.
AbstractGender identity and sexual orientation from a systemic perspective:a proposal for therapeutic interventionThe present article is made up of a first part where, in according with any systemic epistemological premises, is put in evidence how gender identity and sexual orientation are different aspects of sexual identity. Also that last concept is based on an opened and coordinated system of narrations relative to own sexuality, that our self builds between a constant interaction with the environment. The second part describes some different phases of a therapeutic approach, which is finalized to sustain a person to define his/her own sexual identity.

Keywords : sexual identity, sexual orientation, co-build, systemic approach.

INTERVIEWS

Accompanying the families of transsexual minors: the experience of the Naizen and its
president Aingeru Mayor
by Manuela Anna Pinducciu, Alessandro Cascone and Vito StoppaAbstractAccompanying the families of transsexual minors: the experience of the Naizen and its
president Aingeru MayorAingeru Mayor is the president of the Naizen Transsexual Minor Families Association of the Basque Country. He trained as a sexologist and is currently participating in two research projects on transsexuality in developmental age. He is the father of a girl with a penis. Over the years he has written books on the subject of transsexuality in childhood and adolescence.

Keywords: transsexuality, sexual identity, sex, gender, developmental age.

A perspective on the gender affirmation: an interview with Andrea R.
by Camilla SannaAbstractA perspective on the gender affirmation: an interview with Andrea R.Tooltip content

Keywords: gender affirmation, trans*, gender dysphoria, identity.

EXPERIENCES

Maternal “Extint”
by Roberta De Mitri and Manuela Serena Lipori.
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Keywords: maternal instinct, motherhood, woman, constructivism, social constructionism.

REVIEWS

“Disclosure” by Sam Feder
by Camilla Farinelli

GLOSSARY

Parenting activity
by James C. Mancuso