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Download or read book Empathy written by Sarah Schulman and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Little Sister's Classic: Sarah Schulman's beautiful, subtly transgressive novel about identity, sexual politics, and self-esteem.
Book Synopsis Lesbians and Psychoanalysis by : Judith M. Glassgold
Download or read book Lesbians and Psychoanalysis written by Judith M. Glassgold and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-10-06 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encouragement and direction for a brand-new road in life. Embrace God s powerful promises for you as you leave one road and set your course on another . . . exciting, new, and rich with opportunity. "God s Promises(r) for Graduates 2013 "on topics such as confidence, discipline, faith, and wisdom direct your steps and light your path in God s Holy Word. This little book will help steer graduates in God s will as they embark on their new journey in life.
Book Synopsis Homosexuality and the Mental Health Professions by : Jack Drescher
Download or read book Homosexuality and the Mental Health Professions written by Jack Drescher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than half a century, The Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP) has produced position statements on relevant and controversial psychiatric topics. This latest monograph, Homosexuality and the Mental Health Professions: The Impact of Bias,continues a tradition of timely publications dealing with specific aspects of bias, discrimination, and human sexuality. This monograph acutely identifies problems of bias, overt and covert, as they affect the treatment of lesbian and gay patients and as they influence the training of mental health professionals. Incorporating clinical vignettes that detail actual incidents from a wide range of clinical and professional encounters, the report enables the clinician not only to review his or her own experience, but also to envision alternative possibilities of constructive and caring intervention. As psychiatry enters a new era of understanding the full range of normal variation in human sexuality, this monograph will serve both as an indispensable teaching tool and as an invaluable touchstone for assessing quality of care with gay and lesbian patients.
Book Synopsis Beauty of the Broken by : Tawni Waters
Download or read book Beauty of the Broken written by Tawni Waters and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As if her parents' heavy drinking and her father's abuse--which nearly killed her half-brother, Iggy--were not enough, fifteen-year-old Mara is caught kissing her girlfriend, Xylia, by the preacher's son and becomes terrified that her own life is at risk.
Book Synopsis The Fragility of Empathy after the Holocaust by : Carolyn J. Dean
Download or read book The Fragility of Empathy after the Holocaust written by Carolyn J. Dean and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we are confronted with images of and memoirs from the Holocaust and subsequent cases of vast cruelty and suffering, is our impulse to empathize put at risk by the possibility of becoming numb to horror? Carolyn J. Dean's provocative new book addresses the ways we evade our failures of empathy in the face of massive suffering: Has exposure (or overexposure) to representations of pain damaged our ability to feel? Do the frequent claims that artistic representations of extreme cruelty are pornographic allow us to dodge the real issues that we must confront in attempting to come to terms with suffering? Does an excess of terror place constraints on compassion?Dean examines the very different representations of suffering found in visual media, history writing, cultural criticism, and journalism that grapple with the assumption that Americans and Western Europeans have been rendered numb and their appropriate human responses blunted by the events of the past century. The Fragility of Empathy after the Holocaust will be of interest to all readers concerned with contemporary "victim culture," Holocaust representation, and humanism.
Book Synopsis Bisexuality and the Challenge to Lesbian Politics by : Paula C Rust
Download or read book Bisexuality and the Challenge to Lesbian Politics written by Paula C Rust and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995-10 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of bisexuality continues to divide the lesbian and gay community. At pride marches, in films such as Go Fish, at academic conferences, the role and status of bisexuals is hotly contested. Within lesbian communities, formed to support lesbians in a patriarchal and heterosexist society, bisexual women are often perceived as a threat or as a political weakness. Bisexual women feel that they are regarded with suspicion and distrust, if not openly scorned. Drawing on her research with over 400 bisexual and lesbian women, surveying the treatment of bisexuality in the lesbian and gay press, and examining the recent growth of a self-consciously political bisexual movement, Paula Rust addresses a range of questions pertaining to the political and social relationships between lesbians and bisexual women. By tracing the roots of the controversy over bisexuality among lesbians back to the early lesbian feminist debates of the 1970s, Rust argues that those debates created the circumstances in which bisexuality became an inevitable challenge to lesbian politics. She also traces it forward, predicting the future of sexual politics.
Download or read book The Gay World written by Martin Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Neo-Victorianism, Empathy and Reading by : Muren Zhang
Download or read book Neo-Victorianism, Empathy and Reading written by Muren Zhang and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the words of J. Brooks Boustan, the empathic reader is a participant-observer, who, as they read, is both subject to the disruptive and disturbing responses that characters and texts provoke, and aware of the role they are invited to play when responding to fiction. Calling upon the writings of Margaret Atwood, Julian Barnes, Graeme Macrae Burnet, Sarah Waters, Michael Cox and Jane Harris, this book examines the ethics of the text-reader relationship in neo-Victorian literature, focusing upon the role played by empathy in this engagement. Bringing together recent cultural and theoretical research on narrative temporality, empathy and affect, Muren Zhang presents neo-Victorian literature as a genre defined by its experimentation with 'empathetic narrative'. Broken down into themes such as voyeurism, shame, nausea, space and place, Neo-Victorianism, Empathy and Reading argues that such literature pushes the reader to critically reflect upon their reading expectations and strategies, as well as their wider ethical responsibilities. As a result, Zhang breathes new life into the debates associated with the genre and demonstrates new ways of reading and valuing these contemporary texts, providing a future-orientated, reparative and politically meaningful way of reading neo-Victorian literature and culture.
Book Synopsis Bedrooms Have Windows by : Kevin Killian
Download or read book Bedrooms Have Windows written by Kevin Killian and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A post-modern stream-of-consciousness fictional memoir of a gay author.
Book Synopsis Lesbian Identity and Contemporary Psychotherapy by : Eda Goldstein
Download or read book Lesbian Identity and Contemporary Psychotherapy written by Eda Goldstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent contributions to the psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic literature have moved beyond traditional views of lesbianism, but they have tended to address lesbian identity from one theoretical vantage point or another. Rarely have new ideas been linked to the process issues that arise in actual clinical situations. Lesbian Identity and Contemporary Psychotherapy undertakes this very task, and, in so doing, documents the therapeutic gains that result from validating lesbian sexual identity and life experience. Drawing on contemporary relational thinking and new perspectives on gender and sexuality, Goldstein and Horowitz describe and illustrate an affirmative approach to clinical work with lesbians at various stages of the life cycle. Adolescent, young adult, and family issues are all brought within their compass. Making ample use of case vignettes, they demonstrate the ways in which therapists can elicit their patients' personal narratives of self-acceptance as lesbians and coming out experiences; work with the transference and countertransference dynamics subsequent to such disclosures; and finally explore the collaborative process through which therapist and patient seek to understand their therapeutic interaction. A range of life circumstances are brought within the authors' refreshingly "hands-on" clinical approach. Special consideration is given to issues arising when lesbians date and initiate romantic relationships and to the relationship problems that develop in ongoing partnerships during the middle and later years. The book concludes by discussing the issues faced by lesbian therapists in treating lesbian patients and in interacting with heterosexual colleagues. An exemplary overview of newer views of lesbian identity and of the challenges of lesbian life, Lesbian Identity and Contemporary Psychotherapy is equally valuable as an up to date, relationally informed guide to clinical work with lesbian patients.
Book Synopsis Lesbian Love Addiction by : Lauren D. Costine
Download or read book Lesbian Love Addiction written by Lauren D. Costine and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone makes mistakes in relationships at one time or another. Sometimes they learn from those mistakes. Other times, they return to those behaviors and cycle through failed relationship after failed relationship. Sometimes those behaviors become an addiction to love that may leave a person feeling unhappy, unfulfilled, lonely, or worse. Lesbian Love Addiction: Understanding the Urge to Merge and How to Heal When Things go Wrong makes visible the elements of love addiction that many lesbians suffer from. Love addiction for lesbians comes in many forms. Some struggle by sexually acting out and others are serial relationship junkies, jumping from one relationship into the next. Some are addicted to the high of falling in love and once that wears off don’t know how to handle the day-to-day realities of a committed relationship. Some are even addicted to fantasy and intrigue, while others are love avoidants and sexual anorexics. Love avoidants may be able to get into a relationship but once they are fully committed, struggle with feeling smothered. Others may avoid intimate or sexual relationships all together, becoming sexually anorexic. Some may even vacillate between all of these. The underlying component and common denominator in all of these scenarios is the “Urge to Merge.” Lesbian Love Addiction is designed to help ameliorate at least part of this problem. Lauren D. Costine offers insight for lesbians, bisexual women in relationships with women, queer women, and more specifically, any woman who loves women, as well as their family and friends, and health care professionals, into the psychology of lesbian love addiction. It will give those who struggle with and suffer from love addiction ways to understand, cope, and heal from this debilitating addiction. It will give those who work with this population new tools to use to do this more effectively. Mostly, it will help lesbians understand their relationship failures and how to heal from problems associated with them, so they may grow and cultivate happier, more fulfilling connections in the future.
Book Synopsis Women and Mental Health by : Dora Kohen
Download or read book Women and Mental Health written by Dora Kohen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We know that gender traits and mental disorders are based on social, cultural, personal and physiological background. In order to formulate the best management plan for the patient, the mental health practitioner needs to incorporate all available information. Women and Mental Health provides a comprehensive overview of the most prominent mental health problems in women today. Examining the physiological, social and psychological factors of mental illness, and providing an up-to-date perspective on the etiology of different disorders, the book will help mental health professionals formulate the best management plan for the individual. Covering issues including perinatal psychiatric disorders, depression, eating disorders, schizophrenia, and alcohol and drug abuse - from a female perspective - Women and Mental Health will prove a valuable tool for all those working in the fields of mental health.
Book Synopsis Homosexuality by : John C. Gonsiorek
Download or read book Homosexuality written by John C. Gonsiorek and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1991-05-03 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does present important and relevant data on homosexuality that will help sensible professionals and lay people alike refute the specious arguments of....radical right politicians and religious leaders. --Book Reviews "John C. Gonsiorek and James D. Weinrich are skillful in their application of research to public policy . . . . This book is exceptionally readable. . . . [they] are to be particularly commended for their editorial expertise." --Contemporary Psychology "Gonsiorek and Weinrich′s book is a gem! It provides the most up-to-date discussions of all the crucial issues that anyone who deals with gay and lesbian issues must understand--the myths, prejudices, and the knotty issues of policy and the scientific research relevant to them. Whether one needs to know about ′child molestation,′ ′choice,′ ′role models,′ or any other ′old chestnut,′ this book provides a clear and scholarly treatment of the controversy and the research relevant to it. It is indispensable!" --Clinton Anderson, Officer for Gay and Lesbian Concerns American Psychological Association "Gonsiorek and Weinrich assemble a most distinguished group of contributors who, in turn, examine the most important issues regarding the subject of homosexuality from the perspective of psychological research. This book is an invaluable resource for forensic psychologists, lawyers and law makers. It offers a thorough exploration of the research necessary to formulate public policy on these issues. In addition, mental health service providers, instructors, and students alike will find that this book covers the basic issues in the psychology of lesbians and gay men with competence and care. A powerhouse of a book!" --Kristin Hancock, Ph.D., Past Chair, Association of Lesbian & Gay Psychologists and Past President, APA Division #44 "There are so many outstanding contributions to this book and so many reasons to get it. This work flies in the face of hearsay and shatters psychological myth with research. It clearly has many uses in the education and training of psychotherapists. It is the sort of work which would also prove to be an invaluable resource to those who need well-documented, clearly written reviews of available research on gay men and lesbians--whatever the reason." --American Psychological Association, Division #44 Newsletter Despite scientific study and scholarly research, homosexuality continues as the subject of an intense, and often bitter, debate. Current and concise, Homosexuality summarizes what science knows about homosexuality and its relevance for public policy. The chapters here focus on concerns that have been most central to current public policy debates about homosexuality, including: the nature and causes of sexual orientations; the reasons why homosexuality is not an illness; the ethics of various mental health approaches to homosexuality; the effects of social and legal discrimination; newer biological and psychological understandings of homosexuality; homosexual people as couples and parents; and the implications of the AIDS epidemic. Because the contributors hail from a variety of disciplines (social, clinical, and counseling psychology; law; psychiatry; social work; biology; nursing; and anthropology), this volume offers a balanced approach to an important--and controversial--issue. This intriguing and timely volume encourages readers to become discerning consumers of the scientific discourses on homosexuality--past, present, and future. As such, students, scholars, and professionals in psychology, sociology, counseling, and social work will use this volume time and again.
Book Synopsis Annotated Bibliographies Combined: Global Diversity And Inclusion, Hazing and Bullying, LGBT, Sex-Related Behaviors & Toxic Leadership by :
Download or read book Annotated Bibliographies Combined: Global Diversity And Inclusion, Hazing and Bullying, LGBT, Sex-Related Behaviors & Toxic Leadership written by and published by Jeffrey Frank Jones. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTENTS: I. Global Diversity And Inclusion: Diversity and Gender Diversity Generational Differences Implicit Association Women in Military II. Hazing and Bullying Bullying Cyberbullying Hazing III. LGBT LGBT and Family Support LGBT Military Integration IV. Sex-Related Behaviors Military Sexual Trauma Predictors of Sexual Harassment IV. Sexism-Related Behaviors Military Sexual Trauma Predictors of Sexual Harassment Sexism Sexual Harassment Technology Sexual Harassment Training Methods VI. Toxic Leadership Toxic Leadership and Related Constructs
Book Synopsis Romancing the Margins? by : Gabriele Griffin
Download or read book Romancing the Margins? written by Gabriele Griffin and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Romancing the Margins'?: Lesbian Writing in the 1990s explores the range of critical responses to lesbian writing on issues of gender, sexuality, and lesbian identity, in the final decade of the 20th century. Discussing contemporary texts such as Sarah Schulman's novel Empathy, Native American lesbian writing, biographies and autobiographies, and other texts by and about lesbians, this volume stresses the diversity of gender and sexual identity in the 1990s and raises questions about the politics of those positions.
Book Synopsis Gay and Lesbian Couples by : Richard Mackey
Download or read book Gay and Lesbian Couples written by Richard Mackey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-11-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The voices in this book come from the stories of gay and lesbian partners who talk about their struggles over the years in building a life together. The stories reach beyond the obvious realities of sexual orientation to speak to the joys, sorrows, hopes, and fears of human beings who are committed to making their relationships work. Based on a life-span perspective, in-depth interviews of people whose relationships have lasted more than 15 years explored how partners adapted over the years. Each interview consisted of questions that focused upon dimensions of these relationships over time from the unique perspective of each partner. They were asked about conflict over the years, decision-making styles, ways of working out roles, the importance of social supports, and sexual and psychological intimacy. The research upon which the book is based has continuity with the authors' earlier work on lasting relationships among heterosexual couples, including Lasting Marriages: Men and Women Growing Together (Praeger, 1995). Compared to marriages, relatively little research has been done on the development of same sex relationships. This book will be of great interest to all researchers and students of gender differences, marriage and family therapy, human sexuality, and interpersonal relationships.
Book Synopsis IDENTITY: YOU ARE NOT GAY, LESBIAN, TRANS, OR ANY OTHER IDENTITY — YOU ARE THIS WAY. by : Adriano Leonel
Download or read book IDENTITY: YOU ARE NOT GAY, LESBIAN, TRANS, OR ANY OTHER IDENTITY — YOU ARE THIS WAY. written by Adriano Leonel and published by Adriano Leonel. This book was released on 2024-11-10 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IDENTITY: YOU ARE NOT GAY, LESBIAN, TRANS, OR ANY OTHER IDENTITY — YOU ARE THIS WAY. This book is not just a read; it is an embrace, a refuge, and a new chance to experience real transformation. Written for those who carry deep pain, scars from the past, and internal struggles, this is an invitation to healing and rebirth in Christ. How many times, when faced with life's pain, do we feel that no one really understands what we are going through? In this book, the author shares his story of overcoming – a journey of abuse, trauma, and doubts about his own identity that, for a long time, kept him stuck in the past. But everything began to change when he found the true path to freedom: Jesus Christ. He discovered that God's forgiveness and love are capable of transforming even the deepest wounds. Here, you will not find magical solutions, but sincere steps and an unshakable faith that grows stronger with each page. Through personal accounts, powerful reflections, and inspiring and welcoming biblical passages, this book speaks directly to those who seek a new beginning. This is the book for those who want to: Leave behind the weight of guilt and resentment that so consumes peace. Find a sense of identity and purpose, free from the chains of the past. Strengthen their faith and learn to live a life of prayer and self-love. Experience the power of Jesus Christ as a path to true spiritual healing. Throughout this journey, you will be led to a renewed understanding of forgiveness, the importance of living in the present, and the transformative power of faith. These are lessons that not only inspire, but have the power to revolutionize your life and renew your hope. Allow yourself to live this experience. Accept the invitation to heal the wounds of your soul and restore your identity in Christ. This book is a declaration that, regardless of what you have faced, God loves you and has a purpose for you. Transform your pain into a new chapter. Discover the freedom that only Jesus can offer. May God bless each reader and may this book be a true source of transformation for those in need.
