Psychology

Disorienting Sexuality : Psychoanalytic Reappraisals of Sexual Identities by Thomas Domenici (Editor), Ronnie C. Lesser (Editor), Adrienne Harris

Disorienting Sexuality exposes the biases against gay men and lesbians in psychoanalytic theory and practice. In the introduction, Domenici and Lesser draw a brief history of anti-homosexual sentiment in psychoanalysis. The book then moves into essays written by lesbian and gay psychoanalysts seeking to have a voice in the reshaping of psychoanalytic theories of sexuality. The second section is devoted to presenting different theoretical perspectives for understanding both homosexuality and heterosexuality. Disorienting Sexuality concludes with the personal narratives of gay and lesbian psychoanalysts.

"The essays in this volume are passionate, provocative, often brilliant, always illuminating. Together, they explore the most fundamental questions about the nature of desire, sexuality, gender, and psychoanalytic discourse itself. I cannot imagine a reader who would not come away from this volume with broadened vision and deepened understanding of issues which are among the most central and most vexing in psychoanalysis today." -- Jay Greenberg, Ph. D., Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute and Editor, Contemporary Psychoanalysis

About the Author
Thomas Domenici is a psychologist in private practice in the San Francisco Bay area and a graduate of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Ronnie C. Lesser is a psychologist in private practice in Westchester and Manhattan and a candidate in the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.

Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis by Tim Dean (Editor), Christopher Lane (Editor)

Why has homosexuality always fascinated and vexed psychoanalysis? This groundbreaking collection of original essays reconsiders the troubled relationship between same-sex desire and psychoanalysis, assessing homosexuality's status in psychoanalytic theory and practice, as well as the value of psychoanalytic ideas for queer theory. The contributors, each distinguished clinicians and specialists, reexamine works by Freud, Klein, Reich, Lacan, Laplanche, and their feminist and queer revisionists. Sharing a commitment to conscious and unconscious forms of homosexual desire, they offer new perspectives on pleasure, perversion, fetishism, disgust, psychosis, homophobia, AIDS, otherness, and love. Including two previously untranslated essays by Michel Foucault, Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis will interest cultural theorists, psychoanalysts, and anyone concerned with the fate of sexuality in our time.

Contributors: Lauren Berlant, Leo Bersani, Daniel L. Buccino, Arnold I. Davidson, Tim Dean, Jonathan Dollimore, Brad Epps, Michel Foucault, Lynda Hart, Jason B. Jones, Christopher Lane, H. N. Lukes, Catherine Millot, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Ellie Ragland, Paul Robinson, Judith Roof, Joanna Ryan, Ramón E. Soto-Crespo, Suzanne Yang

American Psychiatric Association  

The American Psychiatric Association is a medical specialty society recognized world-wide. Its 40,500 U.S. and international physicians specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional illnesses and substance use disorders.

Association of Gay & Lesbian Psychiatrists

The Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists (AGLP) is a professional organization of psychiatrists, psychiatry residents, and medical students which serves as a voice for the concerns of lesbians and gay men within the psychiatric community.  The Association is committed to fostering a more accurate understanding of homosexuality, opposing discriminatory practices against gay men and lesbians, and promoting supportive, well-informed psychiatric care for lesbian and gay patients.  The organization provides opportunities for affiliation and collaboration among psychiatrists who share these concerns

Dr. Evelyn Hooker

From the Sexual Orientation website at UC Davis

Evelyn Hooker, Ph.D., published the first empirical research to challenge the prevailing psychiatric assumption that homosexuality was a mental illness. Her work was the cornerstone for an entire body of research that ultimately led to removal of "homosexuality" from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Her courage, insight, and integrity have inspired social scientists, mental health professionals, human rights activists, and people around the world...

Site Includes:

Click HERE for more on Dr. Evelyn Hooker

Gay Depth Psychology:  Mitch Walker

Mitch Walker is the author of Men Loving Men, A Gay Sex Guide and Consciousness Book (Gay Sunshine Press, 1977/1993) and Visionary Love: A Spirit Book of Gay Mythology and Transmutational Faerie (Treeroots Press, 1980.)  He was co-founder with Harry Hay and don Kilhefner of the Radical Faerie movement in 1979. He was the first writer to propose a gay-centered Jungian psychology in his 1975 Master's thesis, Gay Depth Psychology. Since then he has continued to explore gay archetypal truths as a homosexual shamanic psychologist in his writings, practice and a growing community of people engaged in gay-centered inner work. More information is available at TreeRoots, an organization devoted to increasing knowledge about gay-centered inner work and what it means to be a gay person. -- Gene Bivins

Laurence Rosen:  Psychotherapist

This web site was designed exclusively for the purpose of providing useful information and to serve as a healing alternative to all interested parties seeking a safe haven from the daily grind. 

Some examples of the kinds of issues treated include :

Relationships  

Lesbian Therapists Referral Network 

Sexual Orientation:  Science, Education and Policy

This site features work by Dr. Gregory Herek — a noted authority on sexual prejudice (or homophobia), hate crimes, and AIDS stigma — and his Northern California Community Research Group at the University of California, Davis. It provides factual information about sexual orientation and HIV/AIDS to promote the use of scientific knowledge for education and enlightened public policy

Topical Guide to Queer Resources in the Social Sciences

By Katia Roberto

[This site attempts] to create a guide to queer sources in anthropology, education, history, law, psychology, sociology, and social work. Obviously, this is a huge undertaking that is far from being comprehensive. This site is only supposed to be a starting point. Its intended audience is social sciences scholars who are interested in finding out more information about queer studies. I've tried to keep the jargon-filled sources to a minimum, though, so that anyone who is interested in these two areas can find something of use...

World Psychiatric Association

The World Psychiatric Association is an organization of psychiatric societies aimed at advancing psychiatric and mental health education, research, clinical care and public policy.

The Association has a scientific section on human sexuality. 

Email: wpa@dti.net.