Colette Chiland is Professor Emeritus at Rene Descartes University of Paris; Psychiatrist-in-chief at the Alfred Binet Center and a Training Analyst of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society. She is also an Honorary President of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP). She has written numerous books and contributed papers to various journals. Colette read philosophy and psychology, then medicine and psychiatry at the University of Paris. She taught clinical psychology at La Sorbonne, then at Universite Paris Descartes, and is training analyst at the Paris Psychoanalytical Society.

• Introduction -- Transsexualism: what's new? -- From the intersexed to transsexuals -- The psychoanalyst and the transsexual -- Treatment -- How the transsexual's mind works -- Masculinity and femininity -- The development of gender identity -- A testing time for us -- Conclusion