Main description:

LGBTIQ+ people are more likely than cisgender and heterosexual individuals to suffer with mental health issues, yet often have poorer therapeutic outcomes. Mainstream Eurocentric psychotherapeutic theories, developed largely by heterosexual, cisgender and white theorists, tend to see LGBTIQ+ as a singular group through this "othered" lens. Despite the undeniable value offered by many of these theories, they and those who use them - queer therapists included - can often pathologize, marginalize, misunderstand and diminish the flourishing and diversity of queer experience.

In this volume, editor and psychotherapist Jane C. Czyzselska speaks with practitioners and clients from diverse modalities and lived experiences, exploring and rethinking some of the unique challenges encountered in a world that continues to marginalize queer lives.

The contributors to Queering Psychotherapy present key insights and practical advice in a dynamic conversational format, providing intimate access to therapists' personal and professional knowledge and reflections. This book is an invaluable training in itself.

Contents:

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION by Jane Chance Czyzselska

1. Queering the Black feminist psychoanalytic

Dr Gail Lewis

2. On working with trans and gender-expansive clients

Ellis J. Johnson

3. Queer shame: notes on becoming an all-embracing mind

Robert Downes

4. How do therapists unwittingly reinforce normativity?

Meg-John Barker

5. Lesbian erasure from Freud's lesbian patient to the present

Jane Chance Czyzselska

6. Meaning-making with queer clients

Charles Neal

7. Queer sex and relationships

Amanda Middleton

8. Trans desire and embodiment

Jake Yearsley and Beck Thom

9. Working with queer sex workers

Karen Pollock

10. Don't panic! Queering the child

Paul Harris, Anthea Benjamin and Neil Young

11. Working with trans children and young people in therapy

Kris Black and Igi Moon

12. Film summary: A Normal Girl

Valentino Vecchietti

13. The truth that's denied: psychotherapy with LGBTIQ+ clients who identify as intersex

Jane Chance Czyzselska

14. Toward an intersectional therapy training

Sabah Choudrey

15. Navigating dual relationships

Dominic Davies

16. Emotional diaspora

Bay De Veen

GLOSSARY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX