Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man - Drescher, Jack

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay ManAuthor(s): Jack Drescher\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United States\nImprint: Analytic Press,U.S.\nISBN-13: 9780881633672, 978-0881633672\nSynopsis\nDo the conventional insights of depth psychology have anything to offer the gay patient? Can contemporary psychoanalytic theory be used to make sense of gay identities in ways that are helpful rather than hurtful, respectful rather than retraumatizing? In Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man Jack Drescher addresses these very questions as he outlines a therapeutic approach to issues of sexual identity that is informed by traditional therapeutic goals (such as psychological integration and more authentic living) while still respecting, even honoring, variations in sexual orientation.\n\nDrescher's exploration of the subjectivities of gay men in psychoanalytic psychotherapy is more than a long-overdue corrective to the inadequate and often pathologizing tomes of traditiona.