Sexual Orientation and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Sexual Science and Clinical Practice
ISBN: 9780231504898
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Psychoanalysis -- Practice; Sexual orientation;

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.

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.
Jennifer I. Downey, M.D., is clinical professor of psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

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