Commitment and Healing
Gay Men and the Need for Romantic Love
Published on 1. May 2006
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-0-471-74049-0 (ISBN)
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Turner Publishing Company
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paper over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 219 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
286 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-74049-0 (9780471740490)
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12/2010
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Person
Richard A. Isay, M.D., is currently Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, on the faculty of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and in private practice in New York City. He has served as chairman of the Committee on Gay and Lesbian Issues of the American Psychiatric Association, as vice president of the National Lesbian and Gay Health Association, and on the Board of the Hetrick Martin Institute for Gay and Lesbian Youth in New York. Dr. Isay is the author of two previous books: "Being Homosexual: Gay Men and Their Development" (1989) and "Becoming Gay: The Journey to Self-Acceptance" (1996).
Content
Acknowledgments. Prologue. 1. The Problem of Romantic Love. 2. Why Is It Difficult to Need Love? 3. Love and Sex in Adult Gay Relationships. 4. Falling in Love. 5. Staying in Love. 6. How Therapy Works. 7. The Therapeutic Power of Love. Epilogue. Notes. Index.