Full Description
Examine gay and lesbian psychoanalysis from a variety of perspectives!
Psychotherapy with Gay Men and Lesbians: Contemporary Dynamic Approaches presents case histories of psychotherapy sessions with gay and lesbian patients, focusing on today's psychoanalytical approaches. Dedicated to enhancing the emotional, psychological, and psychiatric treatment of gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals, the book features prominent analysts with a wide range of clinical and theoretical approaches. The foremost experts in the therapeutic field address issues affecting gay and lesbian patients from psychoanalytic perspectives that respect the patients' sexual identities.
Psychotherapy with Gay Men and Lesbians reflects the significant clinical and theoretical changes therapists face in dealing with issues of gender and sexuality. New ways of thinking coexist with traditional theory as paradigm shifts in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis affect the treatment of gay, lesbian, and bisexual patients. This book provides a forum to address those changes through clinical papers and discussions.
Psychotherapy with Gay Men and Lesbians includes discussion of case reports that deal with:
gay therapists treating gay patients
countertransferential enactments of sex and gender in treatment
rethinking the meanings of homosexuality
psychotherapeutic treatment of gay male patients with AIDS
and much more!
Psychotherapy with Gay Men and Lesbians is an essential forum for the exchange of clinical information on gay and lesbian psychotherapy. The book is a valuable resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, social work therapists, psychoanalysts, and anyone interested in today's psychoanalytic approaches to homosexuality.
Contents
About the Editors
Contributors
Queering the Therapeutic Dyad: Introduction to Psychotherapy with Gay Men and Lesbians
SECTION I: GAY PATIENTGAY THERAPIST
Chapter 1. Gay PatientGay Therapist: A Case Report of Stephen
Chapter 2. A Place of Recognition: Commentary on a Case Report (Gay PatientGay Therapist)
Chapter 3. Unspoken Questions: Unsayable Answers
Chapter 4. Discussion of Gay PatientGay Therapist: A Case Report of Stephen
Chapter 5. Reflections on Self-Disclosure, Desire, Shame, and Emotional Engagement in the Gay Male Psychoanalytic Dyad
Chapter 6. Dream a Little Dream of Me: A Case Discussion
SECTION II: EROTIC TRANSFERENCE/COUNTERTRANSFERENCE
Chapter 7. On Lust and Loathing: Erotic Transference/Countertransference Between a Female Analyst and Female Patients
Chapter 8. Cross-Gendered Longings and the Demand for Categorization: Enacting Gender Within the Transference-Countertransference Relationship
Chapter 9. Gay or Straight? Why Do We Really Want to Know?
Chapter 10. On Homoeroticism, Erotic Countertransference, and the Postmodern View of Life: A Commentary on Papers by Rosiello, Tholfsen, and Meyers
Chapter 11. The Analyst's Erotic Subjectivity: A Reply to Karen Maroda's On Homoeroticism, Erotic Countertransference, and the Postmodern View of Life
SECTION III: GENDER IDENTITY AND CREATIVITY
Chapter 12. Gender Identity and Creativity
SECTION IV: TWO CASES OF PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH PEOPLE WITH HIV/AIDS
Chapter 13. Psychoanalytic Treatment of an Asymptomatic HIV-Positive Gay Man
Chapter 14. On Love, AIDS, and Emotional Contact in Psychotherapy
Chapter 15. Two Cases of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with People with HIV/AIDS: Commentary on Papers by Leli and Weinstein
Chapter 16. Working Outside the Frame: A Discussion of Papers by Robert Weinstein and Ubaldo Leli
Chapter 17. Questioning Some Traditional Rules in Psychotherapy
Index
Reference Notes Included