Main description:

- There is a gap in the market for a practical book about working psychoanlaytically with LGBTQ clients.
- Includes contributions from prominent clinicians working today in the UK, US and Australia.
- Covers a range of topics, from the psychosexual to aging, transgenderism to parenting.

Contents:

1. Sexuality and Gender in Development: Facets of Bedrock and Beyond Paul E. Lynch 2. Revitalizing the Oedipal Model for LGBTQ Couples and Families Shelley Nathans 3. Family Matters: The impact of family and sociocultural context on LGBTQ Identities and Psychodynamics Andi Pilecki Eliza-Christie 4. Cultural and Intercultural Considerations in Working with Same-Sex Couples Patricia Porchat 5. The same or different? Exploring unconscious anxieties for couple psychoanalytic psychotherapists working with same-sex couples Kate Thompson 6. Bisexual People and their Partners in Relational Psychoanalytic Therapy: Aesthetic Conflict, Multiple Selves and the Uncontainable Esther Rapoport & Irit Kleiner Paz 7. Queer Relationships: Unmapped Intimacies Iggy Robinson & Alice Kentridge 8. The fear of difference and desire to differentiate: Working with two transitioning couples Linsey Blair and Dorota Mucha 9. They "went in two by two": The challenge for couple psychotherapists of working with those in open and polyamorous relationships Damian McCann 10. Psychosexual considerations in working with LGBTQ+ couples and individuals Marian O'Connor 11. The Process of Aging for Same-sex Couples David Richards 12. Responding to the challenge that same-sex parents pose for psychoanalytic couple and family therapists: Confronting implicit bias Damian McCann & Colleen Sandor 13. The LGBTQ Couple choice of therapist he/she/they, straight or gay: Creativity vs Defense Colleen Sandor 14. "I love you and you have the scars to prove it": Understanding and responding to intimate partner violence and abuse in same-sex couple relationships Damian McCann