San Camillo-Forlanini Hospital – Rome
Complex Structure of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Simple Departmental Structure of Endocrinology
Coordination of Social and Psychological Services

ONIG NATIONAL CONFERENCE
National Observatory on Gender Identity

in collaboration with the
Gender Identity Development Unit
Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust
London

EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS AND
GENDER IDENTITY DISORDERS
Childhood, adolescence and adulthood

ROME, October 20-21, 2006
Tirreno Hall, Lazio Region

SPEAKERS

– AM Acocella (Psychologist, psychotherapist, SAIFIP, Rome)
– V. Affatati (Clinical Psychologist, Research Fellow, Department of Neurological and Psychiatric Sciences, University of Bari)
– MP Bellini (Neuropsychiatric Physician, ASL 6 Piemonte)
– C. Bettocchi (Medical Surgeon, 1st Urological Clinic, University of Bari)
– C. Brain (Consultant Pediatric Endocrinologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital & University College London Hospitals – Gender Identity Development Unit Pediatric Liaison Clinic, London)
– M. Cappa (Pediatric Endocrinologist, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Rome)
– P. Carmichael (Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Gender Identity Development Unit, Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, London)
– L. Cavalieri (Level 1 Medical Director, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Department, San Camillo-Forlanini Hospital, Rome)
– MR Cavarretta (Psychiatrist, ASL 3 Piemonte)
– L. Chianura (Psychologist, psychotherapist, Head of Clinical Psychology — SAIFIP, Rome, Head of the Institute of Family and Relational Psychotherapy, Rome)
– V. Colonna (Social Worker, Contract Professor at the University of Turin, Faculty of Political Sciences)
– C. Coppone: (Nurse, Head Nurse, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Unit, San Camillo-Forlanini Hospital, Rome)
– M. D'Alessio (Full Professor, Faculty of Psychology 1, Sapienza University of Rome)
– L. Daianis (President of Arci-Trans, Rome)
– L. De Lucia (Representative of the Italian Federation of General Practitioners – FIMMG)
– K. De Santis (Psychologist, psychodiagnostician, SAIFIP, Rome)
– D. Di Ceglie (Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, Adolescent Department, Director Gender Identity Development Unit, Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust, London)
– M. Di Folco (President of the Transsexual Identity Movement – MIT, Bologna)
– S. Einaudi (Pediatrician, Endocrinologist, OIRM S. Anna Hospital)
– A. Felici (Surgeon, SAIFIP Coordinator — Director of the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Department, San Camillo-Forlanini Hospital, Rome)
– C. Franceschelli (Director of the Department of Social-Health Integration and Protection of Mothers and Children, ASL Rm/D)
– F. Incurvati (Psychologist, psychodiagnostician, SAIFIP, Rome)
– R. Lala (Pediatrician, endocrinologist, OIRM S. Anna Hospital)
– S. Lawlor (Senior Lecturer in Clinical Social Work, Gender Identity Development Unit, Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust, London)
– V. Lertora (Gaslini Pediatric Hospital, Genoa)
– G. Liguori (Level 1 Medical Director, UCO of the Urology Clinic, “Ospedali Riuniti di Trieste” Hospital Trust)
– S. Longo (Psychiatrist, Head of Coordination of Social Services and Psychology, San Camillo-Forlanini Hospital, Rome)
– G. Maggiulli: (Level 1 Medical Director, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Department, San Camillo-Forlanini Hospital, Rome)
– M. Malagoli Togliatti (Full Professor, Faculty of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome)
– M. Manzon (Psychologist, psychotherapist, Molinette Hospital, Turin)
– D. Massara (Psychologist, ASL 8 Piedmont)
– M. Mosconi (Psychologist, psychodiagnostician, SAIFIP, Rome)
– P. Mutinelli (Psychologist, psychotherapist, Scientific Director of the Transsexual Identity Movement-MIT Consultancy Center, Bologna)
– DA Nadalin (Psychologist, psychotherapist, Transsexual Identity Movement Counseling Center-MIT, Bologna)
– E. Nonnis (Child Neuropsychiatry, ASL RM/D)
– AR Ravenna (Psychologist, psychotherapist, SAIFIP Supervisor, Rome – Founder and Director of the Rome office of the Gestalt Institute Florence)
– V. Ruggieri (Chair of Clinical Psychophysiology, Faculty of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome)
AP Sanfelici (Psychologist, psychotherapist, Transsexual Identity Movement Counseling Center-MIT, Bologna)
– I. Sarti (Child Neuropsychiatry, Director of the UOC — TSMREE, ASL Rm/B)
– G. Sciortino (Level I Medical Director, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Department, San Camillo-Forlanini Hospital, Rome)
– O. Sassu (Psychologist at the Tumor Epidemiology Unit, San Giovanni Battista Hospital, Turin, and Consultant Psychologist for the Abele Social Consortium at the ISELT Service)
– P. Stella (Psychologist, psychotherapist, Transsexual Identity Movement Counseling Center-MIT, Bologna)
– G. Titti (Director of the Pediatrics, Nursery, and Neonatal Pathology Unit – GB Grassi Hospital, Rome)
– O. Todarello (Professor of Psychiatry, Director of the School of Specialization in Clinical Psychology, President of the Second Level Master's Degree in "Sexual Medicine", Department of Neurological and Psychiatric Sciences – University of Bari)
– C. Trombetta (Associate Professor of Urology, Urology Clinic of Trieste – Director of the School of Specialization in Urology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Trieste)
– F. Valentini (Level I Medical Director, Endocrinologist, Department of Internal and Specialist Medicine – Endocrinology Unit, San Camillo-Forlanini Hospital, Rome)
– P. Valerio (Full Professor of Clinical Psychology, Director of the School of Specialization in Clinical Psychology, University of Naples Federico II)
– R. Viner (Consultant in Adolescent Medicine and Endocrinology, University College London Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital – Gender Identity Development Unit Pediatric Liaison Clinic, London)

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

October 20th

• PARTICIPANT REGISTRATION
8.30-9.00

• GREETINGS FROM THE AUTHORITIES’
9.00-9.30

• OPENING OF WORKS
9.30-9.45
A. Felici, L. Chianura

• MASTER LECTURES
9.45-10.45
D. Di Ceglie: “An Experience of Group Work with Parents of Children and Adolescents with Gender Identity Disorder”
AR Ravenna: "Identity and Identity Disorders from a Phenomenological-Existential Perspective"“

• ROUND TABLE
10.45-11.45

THE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY AND ITS RELATIONAL CONTEXTS
Chair — AR Ravenna

V. Ruggieri: “Identity in relational contexts”
M. Malagoli Togliatti: "The Construction of Identity in the Family Context"“
M. D'Alessio: "Television Models and the Construction of Gender Identity: Risk Factors"“

Coffee Break

• ROUND TABLE
12.15-13.15

NETWORKING
Chair — A. Felici

I. Sarti: "The integration process with TSMREE services"“
C. Franceschelli, E. Nonnis: “Integration with territorial services”
L. De Lucia: "Early Diagnosis and the Supportive and Guidance Role of the General Practitioner in Gender Identity Disorders""
G. Titti: “The warning signs in developmental age”

• ROUND TABLE DEBATE
13.15-13.45

LUNCH BREAK

• ROUND TABLE
15.00-16.00

INTERSEXUAL STATES
Chair — F. Valentini

P. Carmichael: “Gender Identity Development in Disorders of Sex Differentiation, implications for gender assignment and re-assignment”
M. Cappa: “The diagnosis of intersex conditions”
M. Manzon, D. Massara, MR Cavarretta, MP Bellini, S. Einaudi, R. Lala: “Parental Dynamics and Intersexuality”

• ROUND TABLE
16.00-17.00

GENDER IDENTITY DISORDERS IN CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE
Chair — L. Chianura

V. Lertora: "Reflections on the Treatment of GID in Developmental Age"“
M. Mosconi: "The Gender Identity Development Service at the San Camillo-Forlanini Hospital in Rome"“
S. Lawlor: "On not being able to explore masculinity; dilemmas encountered in therapeutic work with an adolescent boy with atypical gender identity development".

• THE WORD TO THE USER ASSOCIATIONS
17.00-19.00

Introduction: L. Daianis
FILM SCREENING
“My Life in Pink” (A. Berliner)
Debate: Host M. Di Folco
M. Di Folco: “The MIT Association: Services and Projects”

October 21st

THE STATE OF THE ART IN THE CENTERS OF THE NATIONAL OBSERVATORY ON GENDER IDENTITY

• ROUND TABLE
9.00-11.00

PSYCHOSOCIAL INTERVENTIONS
Chair — O. Todarello

A.M. Acocella, K. De Santis, F. Incurvati: "Gender Identity Disorders. Which Counseling, Which Psychotherapy, Which Psychodiagnosis?"“
P. Valerio: "From the Diagnostic Alliance to the Therapeutic Alliance: The Ups and Downs of a Journey"“
V. Affatati: “Psychodiagnosis”
S. Longo: “Possible psychiatric co-occurrences”
P. Mutinelli, DA Nadalin, AP Sanfelici, P. Stella: "From surgery onwards: self-perception and network of relationships"“
V. Colonna, O. Sassu: “Job Placement and the ISELT Experience in Turin”

Coffee Break

• ROUND TABLE
11.30 — 13.00

MEDICAL-SURGICAL INTERVENTIONS
Chair — A. Felici

R. Viner, C. Brain: “Hormonal treatments for young people with gender identity dysphoria”.
F. Valentini: "The Clinical Management of People with Gender Identity Disorders"“
A. Felici, G. Maggiulli, L. Cavalieri, G. Sciortino: “Current news on the subject of surgical sex reassignment”
C. Bettocchi: "The Bari Center's Surgical Experience in DIG"“
C. Trombetta: "Our technique for androgynoid conversion"“
C. Coppone: "The Evolution of Nursing Care for People with GID"“

• ROUND TABLE DEBATE
13.00-13.30

CLOSURE OF WORKS

Registration: Participation is free.
Registration must be done by calling the SAIFIP Information Desk (06/58704213 – Monday 2:00-5:00 PM; Wednesday 9:00-11:00 AM) or by email: [email protected]
Registration will also be possible at the conference venue, subject to availability.
A certificate of participation will be issued.
Headquarters: Lazio Region, Tirreno Room – Building C.
Via R. Raimondi Garibaldi, 7 (entrance from Piazza Oderico da Pordenone).
For information: SAIFIP Information Desk: 06/58704213 (Mon. 2:00-5:00 PM; Wed. 9:00-11:00 AM)