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It’s Still Sex Even if You Don’t Have Intercourse
It’s Still Sex Even if You Don’t Have Intercourse All the answers clinicians need to work effectively with LGBTQ clients. A therapist who treats LGBTQ clients often must be more than “gay friendly.” Clinical experience, scientific research, and cultural understanding are advancing rapidly, and the task of being LGBTQ informed is ever-changing in today’s world.
Gender Diagnoses in the DSM and ICD
In 2013, the American Psychiatric Association published the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). In DSM-5, the gender identity disorder diagnoses were retained, but were given a new name: gender dysphoria (GD), with a GD diagnosis for children and another for adolescents and adults. The World Health Organization (WHO) is revising the 11th edition of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11).
Gender Dysphoric/Gender Variant (GD/GV) Children and Adolescents: Summarizing What We Know and What We Have Yet to Learn
The optimal approach to treating minors with gender dysphoria/gender variance (GD/GV) is much more controversial than treating these phenomena in adults. This is because children have limited capacity to participate in decision making regarding their own treatment, and even adolescents have no legal ability to provide informed consent.
Introduction to the Special Issue on “The Treatment of Gender Dysphoric/Gender Variant Children and Adolescents”
1. Nevertheless, the task force concluded that sufficient clinical consensus exists for the development of consensus psychiatric recommendations for the treatment of GD/GV in children and adolescents.
Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy
Ego Distortion in terms of true and false self
Contemporary Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Gay Men With a Commentary on Reparative Therapy of Homosexuality
The shaping of psychoanalytic theory and practice by cultural and personal biases about sexuality
Introduction: Why Barebacking?
High prevalence of HIV infection among young men who have sex with men in New York City.
Coming Out in the Public Sector: Introduction
The experience of intimacy in group psychotherapy with male homosexuals.
Introduction: A Look Inside the “Crystal” Ball
The continuing HIV epidemic among men who have sex with men.
Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy
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Activism and LGBT Psychology: An Introduction
Community: Risk, identity and love in the age of AIDS.
Afterword
Jack Drescher is Editor Emeritus of the Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health.
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