1st Edition
Positioning Identities Lesbians' and Gays' Experiences with Mental Health Care
By Hazel K Platzer
Copyright 2006
218 Pages
by
Routledge
218 Pages
by
Routledge
218 Pages
by
Routledge
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How do lesbians and gays negotiate their sexual identities in mental health care contexts? How do they manage the institutional homophobia and heterosexism embedded in health care practice and practitioners? Using interpretive phenomenology, Hazel Platzer overturns limiting dualisms to describe the ways in which lesbians and gays are silenced and pathologized in their mental health care... Read more
Acknowledgements, Preface, 1 Disordered Identities, 2 The Persistence of the Pathologization of Lesbian and Gay Sexual Identities, 3 On Not Grasping the Nettle, 4 The Research That Cannot Speak Its Name, 5 Identity Parade: Experiences in the Line-Up for Mental Health Care, 6 Mistaken Identities through a Phenomenological Lens, 7 A Discursive Analysis of Resistance to Mistaken Identities, 8 Disintegrating the Dualisms and Reintegrating Identities, 9 Negotiating Sexual Identities, References, Index
Biography
Hazel K Platzer
"[Platzer] constantly pushes substantive and methodological boundaries..[She] obviated the usual sampling bias commonly found in studies of such 'hidden' populations [and] straddled epistemological divides, using interpretive phenomenology, positioning theory and some deconstructive techniques." -Judith Lathlean, Southampton University
