Being Homosexual
Gay Men and Their Development
Published on 17. November 2010
176 pages
978-0-307-77350-0 (ISBN)
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Richard Isay was the first person to challenge the homophobia of the psychoanalytic community and prove, through his own story and those of his patients, that homosexuality is an innate characteristic rather than a learned pathology. Now revised and updated for the 21st-century, the groundbreaking Being Homosexual carries the reader through the main developmental stages in the gay male's life cycle from the initial awareness of same-sex impulses to coming out, forming friendships with other gay men, and a mature integration of one's sexual identity. An invaluable resource for gay men, Being Homosexual is a compassionate and powerful work.
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05/2009
Random House Inc
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DR. RICHARD ISAY is a professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic and a faculty member of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He was instrumental in getting the American Psychoanalytic Association to adopt a non-discrimination policy for the training of candidates.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 - What Is Homosexuality?
- Chapter 2 - Childhood and Early Homosexual Identity
- Chapter 3 - Fathers and Their Homosexual Sons in Childhood
- Chapter 4 - Adolescence and Young Adulthood of Gay Men
- Chapter 5 - AIDS: The Development of Healthy Gay Men and Homophobia
- Chapter 6 - Lovers and Others: Gay Relationships
- Chapter 7 - The Homoerotic Fantasy of Heterosexual Men and the Question of Bisexuality
- Chapter 8 - Psychotherapy with Gay Men
- Chapter 9 - Society and Gay Men
- Notes
- About the Author
- Other Books by This Author
- Books By Richard A. Isay
