GENDER DYSPHORIA PSYCHODIAGNOSIS BETWEEN EXPLICATIVE AND COMPREHENSIVE PROCESSES

GENDER DYSPHORIA PSYCHODIAGNOSIS BETWEEN EXPLICATIVE AND COMPREHENSIVE PROCESSES Merlo Emanuele Maria1 , Mento Carmela1 , Settineri Salvatore2 1 Department of Cognitive Sciences, Psychology, Educational and Cultural Studies, University of Messina 2 Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morphofunctional Imaging, University of Messina Abstract Introduction: The nosography about Gender Dysphoria introduces in addition to depatologisation, the need of social and psychological in depth analysis (DSM V, 2013); this implies that psychodiagnostic practice couldn’t be referred just to psychometry (in our experience MMPI-II, Cogiati, BPRS) for the exclusion of psychopathology (Settineri et al., 2016); it emerges the need of a practice that can prove the dynamics of desire linked to images (Settineri et al., 2017); Method: the study proposes the analysis of 10 subjects’ Rorschach protocols (M to F) paying close attention to psychotraumatic elements, Body and Self representations; in addition 1 Rorschach protocol on an adolescent subject in transition M to F is considered to highlight the aspects of desire; Results: it the presence of fragmentation emerges and partial contents in Self and Body representations, together with the psychotraumatic indices; in the single case emerges the need for body disinvestment and the resolving desire through the sex reassignment surgery; Conclusions: the practice of projective methods provides a phenomenological study, that needs to be requested by the specificity of the phenomenon.