Main description:

Feeling Queer or Queer Feelings? presents highly innovative and contemporary ideas for counsellors, counselling and clinical psychologists and psychotherapists to consider in their work with non-heterosexual clients.

Ground-breaking ideas are presented by new thinkers in the area for issues such as:

coming out
transgender desire
theoretical modalities in working with HIV
the role of therapy in bondage and discipline, domination and submission, and sadomasochism
the use of queer theory in therapeutic research.

Feeling Queer or Queer Feelings? will challenge present ideas about sex, gender and sexuality, and will prove to be invaluable for clinicians in this field.

Contents:

Moon, Introduction: Queer(y)ing a Psychosocial Approach to Sex, Sexuality and Gender in Therapeutic Settings. Hodges, Queer Dilemmas: The Problem of Power in Psychotherapeutic and Counselling Practice. Langdridge, Are You Angry or Are You Heterosexual? A Queer Critique of Lesbian and Gay Models of Identity Development. Moon, Queer(y)ing the Heterosexualisation of Emotion. Hird, Queer(y)ing Intersex: Reflections on Counselling People with Intersex Conditions. Sanger, Queer(y)ing Gender and Sexuality: Transpeople's Lived Experiences and Intimate Partnerships. Butler & Byrne, Queer in Practice: Therapy and Queer Theory. Barker, Iantaffi, and Gupta, Kinky Clients, Kinky Counselling? The Challenges and Potentials of BDSM. Hegarty, Queer Methodologies.