Posts Tagged "Gay men"
Sex and Intimacy: Conflicting Concepts in Gay-Male Couples?
As a gay men grows up, historically being the “hidden enemy within the family”, he hides his true feelings. For an adult gay man sex can be emotionless, so demonstrations of intimacy towards his life-partner can be a struggle to learn. How do gay male couples manage the differences and overlap between sex and intimacy?
Read MoreCouple Therapy with Gay Men
Could not find image https://gaycouplecounselling.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2012/06/Couple-Therapy-With-Gay-Men.png using column post_name “Couple Therapy with Gay Men”. Authors: David E. Greenan & Gil Tunnell. ISBN: 1-57-230-808-7 Very easy to read and written in a friendly, non-technical language. The authors begin by summarising some of gay history (Stonewall etc.) in order to outline how gay male couples have grown to manage their visibility (or lack of) in society and how the partners manage this. Whilst the book is getting on for 10 years now (and some of the comments about marriage, etc., are getting out of date) the therapeutic methodology...
Read MorePsychoanalytic Therapy & The Gay Man.
Could not find image https://gaycouplecounselling.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2012/06/71Z0V5Y6XGL._SL500_AA300_1.jpg using column post_name “Psychoanalytic Therapy & The Gay Man”. Author: Jack Drescher, M.D. ISBN: 0-88163-208-2 Jack Descher is a gay man – and a psychoanalyst. There was a time when gay men were not allowed to be psychoanalysts because being gay was considered as a mental illness. Drescher has gathered a lot of information regarding the analytic therapy of gay men and writing as a gay psychoanalyst the book comes across as helpful, friendly and useful. This was one of the first books we studied regarding therapy and gay men....
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