Uncoupling convention: psychoanalytic approaches to same-sex couples and families

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What does it mean to be member of a gay/lesbian couple or family? The contributors to Uncoupling Convention: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Same-Sex Couples and Families address this question by drawing on two cultural movements of the twentieth century: psychoanalysis and the gay/lesbian civil rights movement. Taken together, these traditions provide a framework for understanding, and providing psychotherapeutic assistance to, gay and lesbian patients who present with troubled relationships. The…

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Full title :Uncoupling convention : psychoanalytic approaches to same-sex couples and families / edited by Ann D'Ercole and Jack Drescher.

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Publication Date:©2004.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Analytic Press
Place of Publication:Hillsdale, NJ
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2004.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xii, 180 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781134894468, 1134894465, 1299697259, 9781299697256, 9780203779453, 0203779452
oclc:ocn852159213
LC Classification:RC451.4.G39
Dewey Decimal:616.89/17/08664

Cover; Uncoupling Convention; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Introduction; 1. Ozzie and Harriet Are Dead: New Family Narratives in a Postmodern World; 2. Gender ""In-Difference"": Gender Development in Lesbian-Parented Families; 3. Couples, Imagined; 4. The Interplay of Difference and Shame; 5. ""Is This Normal?"": Uncovering the Role of Homophobia in the Treatment of a Lesbian Couple; 6. Teasing Apart Gender, Object Choice, and Motherhood in Lesbian Relationships.

7. The Lesbian ""Great American Sperm Hunt"": A Sociological Analysis of Selecting Donors and Constructing Relatedness8. Passion, Play, and Erotic Potential Space in Lesbian Relationships; 9. One Plus One Equals One: Money Matters in Same-Sex Relationships; Index.

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Couples Therapy Familienbeziehung Gays -- Mental health Gays -- Mental health services Homosexuality -- psychology Homosexuelles Paar Homosexuels -- Santé mentale Homosexuels -- Services de santé mentale Lesbians -- Mental health Lesbiennes -- Santé mentale Psychanalyse et homosexualité Psychoanalyse Psychoanalysis and homosexuality PSYCHOLOGY -- Movements Psychotherapy Thérapie de couple Zweierbeziehung