Uncoupling Convention: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Same-Sex Couples and Families

by Jack Drescher and Ann D'Ercole

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881632384
• ISBN13: 9780881632385
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"