Regent's University London Library
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION by Jane Chance Czyzselska -- 1. Queering the Black feminist psychoanalytic -- Dr Gail Lewis -- 2. On working with trans and gender-expansive clients -- Ellis J. Johnson -- 3. Queer shame: notes on becoming an all-embracing mind -- Robert Downes -- 4. How do therapists unwittingly reinforce normativity? -- Meg-John Barker -- 5. Lesbian erasure from Freud's lesbian patient to the present -- Jane Chance Czyzselska -- 6. Meaning-making with queer clients -- Charles Neal -- 7. Queer sex and relationships -- Amanda Middleton -- 8. Trans desire and embodiment -- Jake Yearsley and Beck Thom -- 9. Working with queer sex workers -- Karen Pollock -- 10. Don't panic! Queering the child -- Paul Harris, Anthea Benjamin and Neil Young -- 11. Working with trans children and young people in therapy -- Kris Black and Igi Moon -- 12. Film summary: A Normal Girl -- Valentino Vecchietti -- 13. The truth that's denied: psychotherapy with LGBTIQ+ clients who identify as intersex -- Jane Chance Czyzselska -- 14. Toward an intersectional therapy training -- Sabah Choudrey -- 15. Navigating dual relationships -- Dominic Davies -- 16. Emotional diaspora -- Bay De Veen -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In 'Queering Psychotherapy', Jane C. Czyzselska speaks with practitioners from diverse modalities and lived experiences as well as some clients, exploring some of the unique challenges encountered by therapists and clients alike in a world that continues to marginalise queer lives, and re-thinking ways to address them. LGBTIQ+ people are more likely than cisgender and heterosexual individuals to suffer with mental health issues, yet often have poorer therapeutic outcomes. Mainstream Eurocentric psychotherapeutic theories, developed largely by heterosexual, cisgender and white theorists, tend to see LGBTIQ+ as a singular group through this ""othered"" lens. Despite the undeniable value offered by many of these theories, they and those who use them - queer therapists included - can often pathologize, marginalize, misunderstand and diminish the flourishing and diversity of queer experience. In this volume, editor and psychotherapist Jane C. Czyzselska speaks with practitioners and clients from diverse modalities and lived experiences, exploring and rethinking some of the unique challenges encountered in a world that continues to marginalize queer lives. The contributors to Queering Psychotherapy present key insights and practical advice in a dynamic conversational format, providing intimate access to therapists' personal and professional knowledge and reflections."