Sexualities: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives presents a broad selection of contemporary psychoanalytic thinking on sexuality from a wide range of psychoanalytic traditions. Sexuality remains at the heart of much psychoanalytic theory and practice but it is a complex and controversial subject. Edited by Alessandra Lemma and Paul E. Lynch, this volume includes a range of international contributions that examine contemporary issues and trace common themes needed to understand any sexuality, including the basics of sexuality and the myriad ways in which sexuality is lived.
Key Features
- Clinical examples demonstrating contemporary psychoanalytic techniques.
- Covers heterosexuality, homosexuality, gender, and perversion from a psychoanalytic perspective.
- Divided into four parts: Historical context, Foundational concepts: Contemporary elaborations, Homosexuality, Perversion revisited.
- Psychoanalytic wisdom transferrable to work with patients of all sexualities.
- Invaluable resource for psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists, and academics interested in psychoanalysis, gender, sexuality, or homosexuality.
Additional Information
Throughout Sexualities: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives, the reader will find that the essentials of sexuality may be more similar than they are different for homo- and hetero-sexuality.
Specifications
Alessandra Lemma, PhD is Director of the Psychological Therapies Development Unit at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. She is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society and Visiting Professor in the Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London. She is a Consultant Adult Psychotherapist at the Portman Clinic where she specializes in working with transsexuals.
