Trans and Sexuality ─ An Existentially-Informed Enquiry With Implications for Counselling Psychology

This book explores the sexuality of transgender people, examining key research to consider new ethical methods for investigating sexuality. Integrating existential thought into the theoretical framework of the book, emphasis is placed on links to both phenomenology and counseling psychology, and their engagement with freedom and authenticity. The participants at the heart of the study relate their experiences in psychiatric and psychological settings, as well as in wider cultural and community surroundings. The book positions their stories against the discourse of medicalization and pathologisation, before offering wider implications and practical applications for counseling psychology.

Christina Richards is an Accredited Psychotherapist with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS), whom she represents to NHS England’s Clinical Reference Group on Gender Identity Services. She is also Senior Specialist Psychology Associate at the Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Gender Clinic, and Clinical Research Fellow at the West London Mental Health NHS Trust Gender Clinic, UK.