Gays, Lesbians, and their Therapists Studies in Psychotherapy

by Silverstein, Charles

• ISBN13: 9780393701166
• ISBN10: 0393701166
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1991-04-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary

Each contributor shares a case, focusing not only on the patient's history, dynamics, and treatment, but also on the therapist's countertransference, thus demonstrating how both patient and therapist influence the therapeutic process when the patient and, in many cases, the therapist are gay or lesbian.

Table of Contents

About the Contributors	xi
Psychotherapy and Psychotherapists: A History	1	(14)
Charles Silverstein
Therapy With an Infertile Lesbian Client	15	(16)
Laura S. Brown
Overidentification With a Patient	31	(9)
Robert P. Cabaj
The Effects of Political Activism on Psychotherapy: A Case Study	40	(12)
Armand R. Cerbone
When Sexual and Romantic Feelings Permeate the Therapeutic Relationship	52	(16)
Dianne Elise
Short-Term Treatment of a Multiply Abused Young Man With Confusion About Sexual Identity	68	(16)
John C. Gonsiorek
Ex-Therapy to Sex-Therapy: Notes from the Margins	84	(14)
Marny Hall
Recovery as a Necessary Precursor to Effective Therapy	98	(16)
Patricia I. Zibung Huffman
Psychotherapy with a Patient with Borderline Features	114	(12)
Patricia A. Hunter
Treatment of a Lesbian Batterer	126	(17)
Rochelle L. Klinger
Self-Disclosure: The Gay Male Therapist as Agent of Social Change	143	(12)
Harold Kooden
Sexual Trauma and Masochism	155	(17)
Gregory Lehne
Power of Empathic Relationships: Bereavement Therapy With a Lesbian Widow	172	(15)
April Martin
Scared Straight: Homosexual Threat in Heterosexual Therapists	187	(14)
Donald L. Mosher
The Question of Therapist Self-Disclosure in the Treatment of a Married Gay Man	201	(9)
Gerald Perlman
The Boston Marriage Today: Romantic But Asexual Relationships Among Lesbians	210	(17)
Esther D. Rothblum
Kathleen A. Brebony
Eight Years of Working With People With HIV: The Impact Upon a Therapist	227	(13)
Michael Shernoff
When the Therapist Is More Anxious Than the Patient	240	(13)
Charles Silverstein
The Symbol of the Destructive, Phallic Male	253	(16)
Edward J. Tejirian
Index	269