Patricia Gherovici

Patricia Gherovici, Ph.D. is a licensed psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor practicing in Philadelphia and New York.
She is an award-winning author, who has published nationally and internationally. Most recently she wrote the foreword for Erotic Anger: A User's Manual, (University of Minnesota Press, 2001) and contributed to The Dreams of Interpretation: A Century Down the Royal Road (University of Minnesota Press: 2007).
Her book The Puerto Rican Syndrome (Other Press: 2003) won the Gradiva Award and the Boyer Prize of the American Anthropological Association.
In her new book, Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism (Routledge: 2010), she uses case studies, surveys of transsexual memoirs, discussions of Freud, Lacan, feminist and queer studies authors, and the origins of sexology, to offer an original way to think about sexual identity and sexual difference while showing how transgenderism is reorienting clinical practice.