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Original Articles

A Psychotic Gynemimetic: I Just Had a Pregnant Thought

Pages 464-479 | Published online: 10 Jun 2010
 

Abstract

Nomothetic and idiographic content analytic approaches to the Rorschach are used in complementary fashion to explore the psychotic personality structure and primitive interpersonal modes in a 37-year-old biologically normal male, who was a gynemimetic, that is, a transvestite who aspired to have the genetalia of a woman. The Rorschach was riddled with psychotic verbalizations and imagery suggesting inadequate differentiation from the original symbiosis, inadequate symbiosis anxiety, and significant separation anxiety — a constellation culminating in the transsexual fantasy of fusion with the mother.

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