Elective Affinities? Gender Dysphoria and Anorexia Nervosa | Alexander Korte
Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine
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Talk: Elective Affinities? Gender Dysphoria, trans* identification, and Anorexia Nervosa
Conference: SEGM Athens Conference 2024
Speaker: Alexander Korte, MD
Alexander Korte examines gender dysphoria in adolescent girls through the wider context of puberty, psychosexual development, body image and identity formation.
Korte discusses the particular challenges that can accompany female adolescence, including changing body image, menstruation, sexuality, social expectations and exposure to sexualised media. He then explores what he sees as important psychological and developmental parallels between gender dysphoria and anorexia nervosa, including body alienation, difficulties around emerging sexuality, identity and autonomy, and the influence of social and cultural factors.
Korte argues for an exploratory, outcome-neutral psychotherapeutic approach that considers the individual meaning of gender distress, co-occurring mental health difficulties, family and attachment experiences, sexual orientation, gender stereotypes and broader developmental conflicts.
About the Speaker:
Alexander Korte is a German child and adolescent psychiatrist and psychotherapist, and a professor at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. His clinical and research work focuses on adolescent mental health, including gender dysphoria. Dr. Korte is known internationally for raising concerns about the rapid medicalization of distressed youth and for advocating careful, evidence-based, and developmentally informed approaches to care
00:00 Introduction and conflicts of interest
01:14 The developmental tasks of adolescence
02:40 Brain development during puberty
04:28 The particular challenges of female adolescence
05:20 Body image and body dissatisfaction
09:07 Menstruation and the experience of puberty
09:57 Sexual development and relationships
14:32 Pornography, sexuality and social influences
15:34 Female identity and the transition to adulthood
17:45 Parallels between anorexia and gender dysphoria
21:48 Body image, self-acceptance and psychological conflict
23:58 Cultural and social influences
27:15 Implications for psychotherapy
28:48 Exploring the individual meaning of gender distress
30:45 Comparing approaches to body-image disorders
32:07 Closing reflections
© 2024 Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine. All rights reserved. This recording and the materials therein may not be used, reproduced, distributed, performed, displayed, or modified in any manner in whole or in part without express written consent of SEGM.
Elective Affinities? Gender Dysphoria and Anorexia Nervosa | Alexander Korte
Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine
1,130 views
Talk: Elective Affinities? Gender Dysphoria, trans* identification, and Anorexia Nervosa
Conference: SEGM Athens Conference 2024
Speaker: Alexander Korte, MD
Alexander Korte examines gender dysphoria in adolescent girls through the wider context of puberty, psychosexual development, body image and identity formation.
Korte discusses the particular challenges that can accompany female adolescence, including changing body image, menstruation, sexuality, social expectations and exposure to sexualised media. He then explores what he sees as important psychological and developmental parallels between gender dysphoria and anorexia nervosa, including body alienation, difficulties around emerging sexuality, identity and autonomy, and the influence of social and cultural factors.
Korte argues for an exploratory, outcome-neutral psychotherapeutic approach that considers the individual meaning of gender distress, co-occurring mental health difficulties, family and attachment experiences, sexual orientation, gender stereotypes and broader developmental conflicts.
About the Speaker:
Alexander Korte is a German child and adolescent psychiatrist and psychotherapist, and a professor at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. His clinical and research work focuses on adolescent mental health, including gender dysphoria. Dr. Korte is known internationally for raising concerns about the rapid medicalization of distressed youth and for advocating careful, evidence-based, and developmentally informed approaches to care
00:00 Introduction and conflicts of interest
01:14 The developmental tasks of adolescence
02:40 Brain development during puberty
04:28 The particular challenges of female adolescence
05:20 Body image and body dissatisfaction
09:07 Menstruation and the experience of puberty
09:57 Sexual development and relationships
14:32 Pornography, sexuality and social influences
15:34 Female identity and the transition to adulthood
17:45 Parallels between anorexia and gender dysphoria
21:48 Body image, self-acceptance and psychological conflict
23:58 Cultural and social influences
27:15 Implications for psychotherapy
28:48 Exploring the individual meaning of gender distress
30:45 Comparing approaches to body-image disorders
32:07 Closing reflections
© 2024 Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine. All rights reserved. This recording and the materials therein may not be used, reproduced, distributed, performed, displayed, or modified in any manner in whole or in part without express written consent of SEGM.