Activism and LGBT Psychology
Activism and LGBT Psychology has been co-published simultaneously as Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy, Volume 11, Numbers 3/4 2007.
Monographs from theJournal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy
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1. Addictions in the Gay and Lesbian Community, edited by Jeffrey R. Guss, MD, and Jack Drescher, MD (Vol. 3, No. 3/4, 2000). Explores the unique clinical considerations involved in addiction treatment for gay men and lesbians, groups that reportedly use and abuse alcohol and substances at higher rates than the general population.
2. Gay and Lesbian Parenting, edited by Deborah F. Glazer, PhD, and Jack Drescher, MD (Vol. 4, No. 3/4, 2001). Richly textured, probing. These papers accomplish a rare feat: they explore in a candid, psychologically sophisticated, yet highly readable fashion how parenthood impacts lesbian and gay identity and how these identities affect the experience of parenting. Wonderfully informative. (Martin Stephen Frommer, PhD, Faculty/Supervisor, The institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, New York City).
3. Sexual Conversion Therapy: Ethical, Clinical, and Research Perspectives, edited by Ariel Shidlo, PhD, Michael Schroeder, PsyD, and Jack Drescher, MD (Vol. 5, No. 3/4, 2001).This is an important book. an invaluable resource for mental health providers and policymakers, this book gives voice to those men and women who have experienced painful, degrading, and unsuccessful conversion therapy and survived. The ethics and misuses of conversion therapy practice are well documented, as are the harmful effects. (Joyce Hunter, DSW, Research Scientist, HIV Center for Clinical & Behavioral Studies, New York State Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University, New York City)
4. The Mental Health Professions and Homosexuality: International Perspectives, edited by Vittorio Lingiardi, MD, and Jack Drescher, MD (Vol. 7, No. 1/2, 2003). Provides a worldwide perspective that illuminates the psychiatric, psychoanalytic, and mental health professions understanding and treatment of both lay and professional sexual minorities. (Bob Barrett, PhD, Professor and Counseling Program Coordinator, University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
5. Transgender Subjectivities: A Clinicians Guide, edited by Ubaldo Leli, MD, and Jack Drescher, MD (Vol. 8, No. 1/2, 2004). Indispensable for diagnosticians and therapists dealing with gender dysphoria, important for researchers, and a direct source of help for all individuals suffering from painful uncertainties regarding their sexual identity. (Otto F. Kernberg, MD, Director, Personality Disorders Institute, Weill Medical College of Cornell University)
6. Handbook of LGBT Issues in Community Mental Health, edited by Ronald E. Hellman, MD, and Jack Drescher, MD (Vol. 8, No. 3/4, 2004). ComprehensiveRichly strewn with data, useful addresses of voluntary and other organizations, and case histories. (Michael King, MD, PhD, Professor of Primary Care Psychiatry, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London)
7. A Gay Mans Guide to Prostate Cancer, edited by Gerald Perlman, PhD, and Jack Drescher, MD (Vol. 9, No. 1/2, 2005). Excellent. highly recommended. Patients reading this book will find themselves here, and professionals will learn what they need to help their patients as they struggle with these emotional topics. (Donald Johannes sen, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine)
8. Barebacking: Psychosocial and Public Health Approaches, edited by Perry N. Halkitis, PhD, Leo Wilton, PhD, and Jack Drescher, MD (Vol. 9, No. 3/4, 2005). An examination of the psychological, social, and health issues involving intentional unprotected gay or bisexual sex.
9. Crystal Meth and Men Who Have Sex with Men: What Mental Health Care Professionals Need to Know, edited by Milton L. Wainberg, MD, Andrew Kolodny, MD, and Jack Drescher, MD (Vol. 10, No. 3/4, 2006). This comprehensive book captures not just the extent of the problem and how to recognize it, it offers excellent clinical interventions and treatments. invaluable. (Robert Paul Cabaj, MD, Director, San Francisco Department of Public Healths Community Behavioral Health Services Member, Mayors Task Force on Methamphetamine Abuse, San Francisco)
10. British Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Psychologies: Theory, Research, and Practice, edited by Elizabeth Peel, PhD, Victoria Clarke, PhD, and Jack Drescher, MD (Vol. 11, No. 1/2, 2007). A comprehensive examination of the latest developments in lesbian, gay, and bisexual psychological and psychotherapeutic theory, research, and practice in the United Kingdom.
11. Activism and LGBT Psychology, edited by Judith M. Glassgold, PsyD, and Jack Drescher, MD (Vol. 11, No. 3/4, 2007). An examination of how mental health professionals can create broad change in LGBT mental health and be activists in their professional lives.
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Activism and LGBT Psychology has been co-published simultaneously as Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy, Volume 11, Numbers 3/4 2007.
