"Take an uplifting trip through the life and teachings of Jeanne Hoff, a light of compassion in the field of psychiatry, with this pocket book. An amazing Tale that is a poignant manual that is little in size yet teeming with wisdom and resiliency.
Explore the amazing life of Jeanne Hoff, a pioneer who changed the field of transgender psychiatry, on these pages. The story is told in simple yet meaningful language, allowing you to experience the fortitude that shaped Jeanne's life. Sharing her experiences, both personal and professional, with an honesty that makes one feel something.
It is a wisdom-filled pocket boom that provides an understanding of acceptance, empathy, and the transforming potential of compassion. The tales here speak to the accomplishments of the human spirit as well as the struggles Jeanne endured."
In the New York Times obituary, Penelope Green wrote: "In December 1977, Dr. Jeanne Hoff, a 39-year-old psychiatrist, invited a television crew into her Manhattan home. The next day, they would accompany her to the operating room for her gender-affirming surgery. “Becoming Jeanne: A Search for Sexual Identity,” the resulting documentary about Dr. Hoff’s experience, was shown the next spring on NBC, with Lynn Redgrave and Frank Field as the hosts. “It’s a very lonely moment indeed,” Dr. Hoff, a slight figure with shoulder-length brown hair, said that evening.
She added, “The things we do to our bodies and our lives are very disturbing to the people around us, and I can see that fear and that confusion written on their face even when they’ve known me a long time.” Her choice to undergo surgery was years in the making. Her choice to go public, however, which could have come at great cost to her livelihood and well-being, was easier."
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