Psychoanalytic therapy and the gay man / Jack Drescher.

Do the conventional insights of depth psychology have anything to offer the gay patient? Can contemporary psychoanalytic theory be used to make sense of gay identities in ways that are helpful rather than hurtful, respectful rather than retraumatizing? In Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man Jack...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Drescher, Jack, 1951- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Defining A Gay Identity
  • 3. Theories of the Etiology of Homosexuality
  • 4. Therapeutic Meanings of Antihomosexuality
  • 5. Psychoanalytic Theories of Homosexual Development
  • 6. Reparative Therapies
  • 7. The Therapist's Stance
  • 8. Developmental Narratives of Gay Men
  • 9. The Closet
  • 10. Coming Out.