Identity and the Foundational Myth: Psychoanalytic Insights into Gender Distress
Book Details
- Publisher : Karnac Books
- Published : 2025
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 240
- Category :
Forthcoming - Category 2 :
Child and Adolescent Studies - Catalogue No : 98273
- ISBN 13 : 9781800133884
- ISBN 10 : 180013388X
About the Author(s)
Marcus Evans is a psychoanalyst and fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He was a consultant psychotherapist and mental health nurse with forty years of experience in mental health. He was head of the nursing discipline at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust between 1998 and 2018. He was also the lead clinician in the adult and adolescent service and one of the founding members of Fitzjohn’s Service for the treatment of patients with severe and enduring mental health conditions and/or personality disorders. He has written and taught extensively on applying psychoanalytic thinking in mental health settings. Karnac published the first, Making Room for Madness in Mental Health: The Psychoanalytic Understanding of Psychotic Communications, in 2016. His second book, Psychoanalytic Thinking in Mental Health Settings, introduces front-line mental health professionals to psychoanalytic thinking and was published by Routledge in 2020. The following year, his third book, Gender Dysphoria: A Therapeutic Model for Working with Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults, written with his wife, Susan, was published by Phoenix.