Course of Gay and Lesbian Lives Social and Psychoanalytic Perspectives

Name: Course of Gay and Lesbian Lives Social and Psychoanalytic Perspectives
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ISBN: 9780226113036

ISBN-10: 0226113035

ISBN-13: 9780226113036

Edition: 2000

Authors: Bertram J. Cohler, Robert M. Galatzer-Levy

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We live in a society obsessed with tracing the cause of homosexuality. Is there a gene that can be identified? Or do the origins lie outside of biology in the cultural context of childhood or adolescence? Most importantly, should we care about any of these questions? Drawing on their own work with gays, lesbians, and bisexuals as well as other pertinent studies, psychoanalysts Bertram J. Cohler and Robert Galatzer-Levy have written a groundbreaking work that examines how psychological development and clinical intervention as well as social and historical change across generations contribute to how we think about sexuality. The authors argue that there is little support for assuming that…

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List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/1/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 552
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Homosexuality and Psychological Inquiry



Gay and Lesbian Lives and Psychoanalytic Inquiry



Perspectives on the Study of Sexual Orientation



The Question of Origins and the Course of Psychosocial Development



Biology, Sexuality, and the Foundation of Human Sexual Orientation



Storied Accounts and Psychoanalytic Understandings of the Childhoods of Gay Men and Women



Adolescence and Youth: Realizing Gay and Lesbian Sexual Identity



Lesbian and Gay Lives across the Adult Years



Gender Orientation and Issues in Psychoanalytic Intervention



Sexual Orientation and Personal Distress: Shame, Stigma, and Homophobia



Sexual Orientation and Evaluation of Personal Adjustment



Psychodynamics of Sexual Orientation



"Ego-Dystonic" Homosexuality and the Issue of Reparative Therapy



Psychoanalytic Intervention among Gay Men and Women



Self, Sexual Identity, and the Psychoanalytic Situation


Conclusion: Toward a Developmental Perspective on Gay and Lesbian Lives


References


Author Index


Subject Index