Presenter: Sien Rivera, M.D. is a PGY5 Child/Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow at Prisma Health Midlands, a member of Prisma Health’s physician working group for transgender patient care, the Association for Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrist’s Resident Committee, the American Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist’s Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues Sub-Committee, and the Committee on Gender and Sexuality of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He is the 2021 recipient of the Ralph Roughton Paper award. His paper, “FROM BATTLEGROUND TO PLAYGROUND: A WINNICOTTIAN READING OF THE VIDEO GAME AVATAR AS TRANSITIONAL PHENOMENON FOR THE QUEER, TRANSGENDER, AND/OR GENDER NON-CONFORMING PATIENT” was awarded an honorable mention for the IPA’s first Tiresias Award.
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Goetz, C. (2017). Securing Home Base: Separation-Individuation, Attachment Theory, and the “Virtual Worlds” Paradigm in Video Games. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 70(1).
Winnicott, D. W. (1953). Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 34:89-97.
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