Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-340) and index.
Contents
I. Striving for gender identity. 1. Non-gay homosexuals: who are they? -- 2. The politics of diagnosis. -- 3. The failure of the mental health profession. -- 4. The importance of the father-son relationship. -- 5. Formation of the father-son bond. -- 6. Failure of the father-son relationship. -- II. Related problems. 7. Problems emerging in childhood. -- 8. Other factors: mother and family relations. -- 9. Physiogenetic factors. -- 10. Associated features of the homosexual personality. -- 11. Homosexual love relationships. -- 12. Gay sexuality. -- 13. The refusal to acknowledge pathological elements. -- III. Psychotherapy. 14. The treatment. -- 15. The therapeutic relationship. -- 16. Therapeutic issues. -- 17. Group psychotherapy. -- 18. The initial interview. -- 19. The issues of individual psychotherapy. -- 20. The process of group psychotherapy.