ABSTRACT
H. Clements, D. L. Dawson and R. Das Nair found professionals working with offenders of both genders in the UK, Australia, and Canada believed that abuse perpetrated by a woman is more harmful than abuse perpetrated by a man. A grievance can be an enactment of grief, a visceral way of transmitting the patient’s profound losses into the therapist, robbing the practitioner of power and relieving the patient of his helplessness. The attack felt by the patient has to be evacuated into the therapist—the grief must be concretised into a grievance. All psychotherapists working with anyone other than the mythological “worried well” are vulnerable to attack. Some reports estimate that transgender survivors may experience rates of sexual assault up to sixty-six per cent, often coupled with physical assaults or abuse. Simon‘s solutions to the agony of childhood sexual abuse tended to involve manic flights from gender and sexuality, in his case from maleness and homosexuality.
