Conundrums and Controversies—An Introduction to the Section

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Notes

To quote Ehrensaft's footnote in this volume: “Although Gender Dysphoria has replaced Gender Identity Disorder in the new Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM V), the concept of Gender Identity Disorder as a diagnostic category is still widely in use in many people's thinking.”.

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Claudia Lament

Claudia Lament, Ph.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education, an affiliate of the New York University Langone School of Medicine. She is Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the Child Study Center, New York University Langone Medical Center. She is also Senior Managing Editor of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child.