Same-Sex Couples and Other Identities

This book provides a contemporary exploration of psychoanalytic theory and its application to therapy with lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer relationships, challenging heteronormative practice and introducing new perspectives on working with gender and sexual diversity.

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Damian McCann, D.Sys.Psych, is a couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist working at Tavistock Relationships, London, and adjunct faculty member of the International Psychotherapy Institute (IPI), Washington, DC. He is a full member of the British Psychoanalytic Council and has a particular interest in working with gender and sexual diversity in psychoanalytic practice.

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1. Sexuality and Gender in Development: Facets of Bedrock and Beyond Paul E. Lynch 2. Revitalizing the Oedipal Model for LGBTQ Couples and Families Shelley Nathans 3. Family Matters: The impact of family and sociocultural context on LGBTQ Identities and Psychodynamics Andi Pilecki Eliza-Christie 4. Cultural and Intercultural Considerations in Working with Same-Sex Couples Patricia Porchat 5. The same or different? Exploring unconscious anxieties for couple psychoanalytic psychotherapists working with same-sex couples Kate Thompson 6. Bisexual People and their Partners in Relational Psychoanalytic Therapy: Aesthetic Conflict, Multiple Selves and the Uncontainable Esther Rapoport & Irit Kleiner Paz 7. *Queer Relationships: Unmapped Intimacies Iggy Robinson & Alice Kentridge 8. The fear of difference and desire to differentiate: Working with two transitioning couples Linsey Blair and Dorota Mucha 9. They "went in two by two": The challenge for couple psychotherapists of working with those in open and polyamorous relationships Damian McCann 10. Psychosexual considerations in working with LGBTQ+ couples and individuals Marian O'Connor 11. The Process of Aging for Same-sex Couples David Richards 12. Responding to the challenge that same-sex parents pose for psychoanalytic couple and family therapists: Confronting implicit bias Damian McCann & Colleen Sandor 13. The LGBTQ Couple choice of therapist he/she/they, straight or gay: Creativity vs Defense Colleen Sandor 14. "I love you and you have the scars to prove it": Understanding and responding to intimate partner violence and abuse in same-sex couple relationships Damian McCann*