The Internal Developmental Experience of Parents Who Have a Gender Variant Child

Graduate degrees in Clinical and Educational Psychology, is an Associate Faculty member at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute, and a Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychoanalyst, psychotherapist, and clinical supervisor in private practice in Ann Arbor, MI. She has presented this paper at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Society, The Association for Child Psychoanalysis, and the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society, Quebec English Branch. She presented adult clinical case material for a February 2024, American Psychoanalytic Association panel, “Widening the Scope of Practice as an Outgrowth of Broadening One’s Clinical Theories” with Joseph Aguayo, Stephen Seligman, and Susan Flinders, and presented adult clinical material in May 2023, with Joseph Aguayo for the Michigan Psychoanalytic Society presentation, “Bion’s ‘Notes on Memory and Desire.’” Prior to psychoanalytic training, Barbara was at Allen Creek Preschool in Ann Arbor, MI, a psychoanalytic preschool with a focus on parent-child relationships, where she was a parent, teacher, family consultant, and executive director. Barbara has interests in child development, gender, parenting, early object relations, and attachment. Potentially personally-identifying information presented in this article that relates directly or indirectly to an individual, or individuals, has been changed to disguise and safeguard the confidentiality, privacy, and data protection rights of those concerned, in accordance with the journal’s Anonymization policy.