Sex Changes: Transformations in Society and Psychoanalysis

Attitudes toward sexuality have changed enormously in the last half century. Sexual behavior that was once deemed criminal or pathological is now considered normal; gender identity, once seen as fixed into two categories, male and female, is now understood to have many more variations. In Sex Changes, Mark Blechner collects papers he has written over the last 35 years on sex, gender, and sexuality. Interspersed with the papers are reflections showing how changes in society, his life, and his writing on sexuality - as well as in psychoanalysis in general - each affected one another. The aim is a radical shift in psychoanalytic thinking about sexuality, gender, normalcy, prejudice, and the relationship of therapeutic aims and values. Book jacket.