2009
DOI: 10.1177/036215370903900207
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Why Have Sex?: A Case Study in Character, Perversion, and Free Choice

Abstract: This article presents a detailed case study as a way to examine the tensions between self-perceived conflicts about "perverse" and "normal" modes of sexual expression. The author describes how being aware of his own countertransference reactions to the client's struggles contributed to creating the psychological space in which the client could come to his own conclusions. The article is also a contribution to the efforts to establish sexuality as a central focus of attention to psychotherapy in general and tra… Show more

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“…However, if heterosexuality is held up as the gold standard for normality, then transgender identity and its associated sexual practices could be viewed as dysfunctional and perverse. Cornell (2009) discussed normality and wrote this:McDougall (1991) has bitingly observed: “When an analyst, or any other individual, proclaims that this or that theory, practice, or person is “perverse,” he may in fact be saying: “Don’t look at me, the very model of normality, but cast your eyes over there.” The pervert is always someone else! (p. 188).…”
Section: Normalization Versus Dysfunctionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…However, if heterosexuality is held up as the gold standard for normality, then transgender identity and its associated sexual practices could be viewed as dysfunctional and perverse. Cornell (2009) discussed normality and wrote this:McDougall (1991) has bitingly observed: “When an analyst, or any other individual, proclaims that this or that theory, practice, or person is “perverse,” he may in fact be saying: “Don’t look at me, the very model of normality, but cast your eyes over there.” The pervert is always someone else! (p. 188).…”
Section: Normalization Versus Dysfunctionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, if heterosexuality is held up as the gold standard for normality, then transgender identity and its associated sexual practices could be viewed as dysfunctional and perverse. Cornell (2009) discussed normality and wrote this:…”
Section: Normalization Versus Dysfunctionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…In my opinion, avoidance of what is uncontrollable is an inheritance that transactional analysts were glad to accept because in the transactional analytic literature there is an avoidance of the erotic and seductive dimension of the therapeutic relationship, except for a few publications over the past 12 years (Cornell, 2001(Cornell, , 2009Cornell, Shadbolt, & Norton, 2007;Hargaden, 2001). At the clinical level this produced a generalized lack of interest in this issue-in line with an orientation common also in other psychotherapeutic theories-and a tendency, as we shall see later, to enact seduction in dissociated ways through social control rituals that tame the power of desire.…”
Section: Berne's Contributionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Cornell expands the experience further, saying, “sex merges past and present, body and mind, actuality and fantasy, hope and loss, conscious and unconscious, action and emotion, and our own bodies and those of others” (2017: 136).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%