»Mama sagte immer, mir sei da etwas falsch angewachsen gewesen, und das hätte man entfernen müssen«: Intergeschlechtlichkeit: ein Diskurs zur Entwicklung eines (in)kongruenten Selbst aus personzentrierter Perspektive

Abstract

About one in 2,000 children in Austria is diagnosed as intersex at birth, while others learn about it later in life – or not at all. In order to be able to quickly assign these infants legally to a clearly male or female gender, gender-assignment surgeries are performed. The extent to which there is a danger that the medically prefabricated life plans for inter* persons prevent a healthy development of personality and cause physical and psychological suffering will be clarified by drawing on developmental psychology and person-centered theory. Finally, this article will explain what therapists working in a person-centered way should pay special attention to when working with intersex people.