Sexual Orientation and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Sexual Science and Clinical Practice

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-231-12056-2
Verlag: COLUMBIA UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 363 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 676 g

This book bridges psychoanalytic thought and sexual science. It brings sexuality back to the center of psychoanalysis and shows how important it is for students of human sexuality to understand motives that are often irrational and unconscious. The authors present a new perspective about male and female development, emphasizing the ways in which sexual orientation and homophobia appear early in life. The clinical section of the book focuses on the psychodynamics and treatment of homophobia and internalized homophobia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Friedman, Richard

Downey, Jennifer

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Theoretical/Developmental 1. Sexual Fantasies in Men and Women2. Genetic Influences on Sexual Orientation3. Psychoendocrinology and Sexual Orientation4. Psychoendocrinology and Role Behavior5. Freud, Oedipus, and Homosexuality6. Toward a Revised Formulation of Male Oedipal Aggression7. Psychobiology of Late Childhood: Significance for Developmental Psychoanalytic Theory8. Female Homosexuality: Classical Psychoanalytic Theory ReconsideredPart 2: Clinical 9. Homophobia, Internalized Homophobia, and the Negative Therapeutic Reaction10. Internalized Homophobia, Pathological Grief, and High-Risk Behavior in a Gay Man with Multiple Psychiatric Disorders11. Internalized Homophobia and Gender-Valued Self-Esteem in the Psychoanalysis of Gay Patients12. Homophobic Parents13. Psychopathology, Suicidality, and Homosexuality: New Developments14. Coming Out at Eighty-Four: The Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Internalized Homophobia in a Lesbian Patient15. Sexual Orientation and Psychoanalysis: Problems and Controversies16. The Model of Homosexuality as Psychopathology: Science and Psychoanalysis

Über Autor(innen)

Richard C. Friedman, M.D., is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Weill Medical College, Cornell University, and a lecturer at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is the author of Male Homosexuality: A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspective.Jennifer I. Downey, M.D., is clinical professor of psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She is the editor, with Richard C. Friedman, of Masculinity and Sexuality: Selected Topics in the Psychology of Men.
Friedman and Downey have coauthored numerous articles on psychoanalysis and sexuality. They are psychoanalysts in private practice in New York City.