1st Edition

The Annual of Psychoanalysis, V. 30 Rethinking Psychoanalysis and the Homosexualities

Edited By Jerome A. Winer, James W. Anderson Copyright 2003
324 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

324 Pages
by Routledge

The issue of same-gender sexual identity has challenged our understanding of psychological development and psychological intervention throughout the century just past and continues to provoke discussion in the century upon us. Over the past three decades, psychoanalysis advanced toward a contemporary perspective, which holds that the dynamics of sexual orientation must be an important element of... Read more
Part I: Homosexuality in Time and Place. Nussbaum, Other Times, Other Places: Homosexuality in Ancient Greece. Schafer, On Male Nonnormative Sexuality and Perversion in Psychoanalytic Discourse. Bergmann, The Relevance of History to the Psychoanalytic Controversy over Homosexuality. Person, The Homosexualities. Part II: The Question of Origins. Drescher, Causes and Becauses: On Etiological Theories of Homosexuality. Friedman, Homosexuality. Part III: Changing Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Homosexuality. Roughton, The Two Analyses of a Gay Man: The Interplay of Social Change and Psychoanalytic Understanding. Cohler, Two Analyses, Two Times: Discussion of Ralph Roughton's Chapter. Tolpin, Discussion of Ralph Roughton's Chapter. Part IV: The Meaning of Sexualization in Clinical Psychoanalysis. Phillips, The Overstimulation of Everyday Life: Male Homosexuality, Countertransference, and Psychoanalytic Treatment. Shelby, Sexualization and the Disavowal of Tender Longings. Roughton, Transference Availability: Discussion of R. Dennis Shelby's Clinical Case. Young-Bruehl, Discussion of R. Dennis Shelby's Clinical Case. Lynch, Yearning for Love and Cruising for Sex: Returning to Freud to Understand Some Gay Men. Shelby, About Cruising and Being Cruised. Part V: Female Homosexuality. Martin, Mirror, Mirror: An Enactment that Stalemated a Psychotherapy. Jenkins, Discussion of Karen Martin's Clinical Case. Keefer, Countertransference Dominance: Discussion of Karen Martin's Clinical Case. Martin, Reply to the Discussions. Keefer, Reene, Female Adolescence: Difficult for Heterosexual Girls, Hazardous for Lesbians. Part VI: Psychoanalysis and Homosexuality in Contemporary Society. Galatzer-Levy, Cohler, Making a Gay Identity: Coming Out, Social Context, and Psychodynamics. Grossman, Queering Psychoanalysis.

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Jerome A. Winer, James W. Anderson