title: The queering of relational psychoanalysis.
abstract: ABSTRACT The author argues that queer theory and relational psychoanalysis have influenced each other in significant ways. These include the designation of "queer" superceding the essential identity categories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender; multiple implications for gender and sexual orientation developmental theories; the necessity for the analyst to foreground countertransference issues in relation to gender; and a less defended relationship to erotic transferences and countertransferences.
authors.affiliation: a Department Chair of the Feminist Psychology Graduate Program , New College of California , San Francisco , CA , USA.
authors.forename: Betsy
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kassoff
keywords: Queer theory; erotic transference; gender development; relational psychoanalysis; reotic countertransference