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Historical and Clinical Experiences Across the Gender Spectrum

An Interview With Vernon Rosario by William Cornell

Pages 244-250
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This conversation between Vernon Rosario and William Cornell explores the meanings and challenges of nonnormative sexual preferences and the varieties and variations of gender experience and expression from personal, clinical, social, and historical perspectives. Particular attention is paid to gender presentations among contemporary adolescents. In addressing the core of the clinical issues in therapy, Rosario argues for the reliance on individuals’ psychological experiences (however complexly molded) in helping them achieve their own authentic harmony with their material bodies.

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Vernon A. Rosario

Author Biography
Vernon A. Rosario, MD, PhD, is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a child psychiatrist with the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health. He received his PhD in the history of science from Harvard University, where his research was on the history of modern European neuropsychiatry. He received his MD from the Harvard Medical School—MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology. Among his publications are The Erotic Imagination: French Histories of Perversity (Oxford University Press) and Homosexuality and Science: A Guide to the Debates (ABC Clio Press). His current clinical research is on sexuality and gender identity in transgender and intersex children and adults. Dr. Rosario can be reached at Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, Augustus F. Hawkins Family Mental Health Center, 1720 E. 120th St., Los Angeles, CA 90059, USA; email: .
 

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