Navigating Youth Gender Transition: Coping Mechanisms, Parental Influence, and Psychological Considerations in Young Women

Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis and a consultant psychotherapist and mental health nurse with 45 years of experience in mental health. He served as head of the nursing discipline at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust from 1998 to 2018. He was also the lead clinician in the adult and adolescent services and one of the founding members of Fitzjohn’s Service for the treatment of patients with severe and enduring mental health conditions and/or personality disorders. He has written and taught extensively on the application of psychoanalytic thinking within mental health settings, including writing three books. Karnac published the first, ‘Making room for madness in mental health: the psychoanalytic understanding of psychotic communications,’ in 2016. His second book, ‘Psychoanalytic thinking in mental health settings’, introduces front-line mental health professionals to psychoanalytic thinking and was published by Routledge in 2020. His third book, ‘Gender dysphoria: a therapeutic model for working with children, adolescents, and young adults’, which he has written with his wife, Susan, is due to be published this month.