Feeling Queer or Queer Feelings?: Radical Approaches to Counselling Sex, Sexualities and Genders

by Moon; Lyndsey

• ISBN13: 9780415385213
• ISBN10: 0415385210
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781317834731
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2007-12-20
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

Feeling Queer or Queer Feelings? presents highly innovative and contemporary ideas for counsellors, counselling and clinical psychologists and psychotherapists to consider in their work with non-heterosexual clients. Ground-breaking ideas are presented by new thinkers in the area for issues such as: coming out transgender desire theoretical modalities in working with HIV the role of therapy in bondage, domination and sadomasochism the use of queer theory in therapeutic research. Feeling Queer or Queer Feelings? will challenge present ideas about sex, gender and sexuality, and will prove to be invaluable for clinicians in this field.

Table of Contents

Moon, Introduction: Queer(y)ing A Psychosocial Approach to Sex, Sexuality and Gender in Therapeutic Settings

Hodges, Queer Dilemmas: The Problem of Power in Psychotherapeutic and Counselling Practice

Langdridge, Are you angry or are you heterosexual? A queer critique of lesbian and gay models of identity development

Moon Queer(y)ing The Heterosexualisation of Emotion

Hird, Queer(y)ing Intersex: Refelctions on Counselling People with Intersex Conditions

Sanger, Queer(y)ing Gender and Sexuality: Transpeople's Lived Experiences and Intimate Partnerships

Butler & Byrne, Queer in Practice: Therapy and Queer Theory

Barker, Kinky clients, Kinky counselling? The challenges and potentials of BDSM

Hegarty, Queer Methodologies

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