Outbreak: On Transgender Teens and Psychic Epidemics
In this episode of Jungian Perspectives: Conversations in Depth, host and analyst Dr. Barry Miller explores the rise of gender identity in young people with Lisa Marchiano — Jungian analyst, co-host of This Jungian Life, and co-author of Dreamwise.
Drawing on her articles in Psychological Perspectives, Marchiano reflects on rapid-onset gender questioning in clinical practice and approaches it as a potentially rich, symbolic encounter with anima and animus. The conversation asks what happens when that symbolic process is concretized, and what role social contagion, archetypal forces, and collective complexes may be playing.