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This pioneering book presents a novel analysis of transgender constructions within a clinical setting, examining the experiences of 'transsexuality in treatment' interpreted through psychological, feminist, post-structuralist and queer theories.

Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. The (un)finished bodies and the (im)possible sexualities of Psychiatry Chapter 3. Clinical violence and juridical lack of recognition: the production of monsters Chapter 4. The biologization of the abnormal: somatic fictions of identity Chapter 5. The confessed story of unlivable lives: psychopathologization of oppressions Chapter 6. Monstrogenesis and monstrolysis: the regulative production of death. Conclusion