Sexual Orientation and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (eBook)

Richard C. Friedman, M.D., is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Weill Medical College, Cornell University, and a lecturer at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is the author of Male Homosexuality: A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspective.Jennifer I. Downey, M.D., is clinical professor of psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She is the editor, with Richard C. Friedman, of Masculinity and Sexuality: Selected Topics in the Psychology of Men.Friedman and Downey have coauthored numerous articles on psychoanalysis and sexuality. They are psychoanalysts in private practice in New York City.

Part 1: Theoretical/Developmental 1. Sexual Fantasies in Men and Women2. Genetic Influences on Sexual Orientation3. Psychoendocrinology and Sexual Orientation4. Psychoendocrinology and Role Behavior5. Freud, Oedipus, and Homosexuality6. Toward a Revised Formulation of Male Oedipal Aggression7. Psychobiology of Late Childhood: Significance for Developmental Psychoanalytic Theory8. Female Homosexuality: Classical Psychoanalytic Theory ReconsideredPart 2: Clinical 9. Homophobia, Internalized Homophobia, and the Negative Therapeutic Reaction10. Internalized Homophobia, Pathological Grief, and High-Risk Behavior in a Gay Man with Multiple Psychiatric Disorders11. Internalized Homophobia and Gender-Valued Self-Esteem in the Psychoanalysis of Gay Patients12. Homophobic Parents13. Psychopathology, Suicidality, and Homosexuality: New Developments14. Coming Out at Eighty-Four: The Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Internalized Homophobia in a Lesbian Patient15. Sexual Orientation and Psychoanalysis: Problems and Controversies16. The Model of Homosexuality as Psychopathology: Science and Psychoanalysis