Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis I: Historical Perspectives

Autor: Ralph Roughton, Maggie Magee, Diana C. Miller, Kenneth Lewes, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health. 12:299-323
ISSN: 1935-9713
1935-9705
DOI: 10.1080/19359700802196909
Popis: On May 1, 2004, the Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists (AGLP), with co-sponsorship from St. Luke's–Roosevelt Medical Center, The Haworth Press, and the William Alanson White Institute, organized an all-day conference in New York City entitled “Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis: New Directions.” The proceedings of the first panel focused on Historical Perspectives. The first contributor is Kenneth Lewes, PhD, who discusses the history of the psychoanalytic theory of homosexuality. Lewes reflects on what history says about the psychoanalytic endeavor and our present situation as analysts and as people who are homosexual. He notes that although there is a great deal to celebrate in the dissolution of old prejudices, which represent a dark stain on psychoanalytic history, we still have not understood how such a lapse could have occurred and that until we do, there is a real chance of its recurrence. Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, PhD, begins with some autobiographical remarks about the processes in...
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