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Uncoupling Convention: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Same-Sex Couples and Families by Jack Drescher, Ann D'Ercole (Hardcover, 2004)

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What does it mean to be member of a gay/lesbian couple or family? The contributors to Uncoupling Convention address this question through a clinical focus that supplants the heterosexual perspectives of traditional psychoanalysis with new narratives about family life. Drawing on cultural, feminist, gay/lesbian, and queer studies, they illustrate how concepts of gender and sexuality are routinely informed by unproven heterosexist assumptions - both conscious and unconscious. Just as unarticulated assumptions about gender and sexual identify inform cultural conceptions of who is, and who is not, a person, so these same assumptions shape our understanding of what is, and what is not, a couple or family. By examining the changing developmental needs and family dynamics of gay and lesbian families, the contributors broaden our very understanding of what a family is. They illustrate how contrasting cultural constructions of homosexuality and family life play out in same-sex couples. They delineate the multiple realities of gender subjectivity, both in children and in their gay parents. They ponder how technology is shaping reproductive experiences, as lesbians become part of the biomedical system. And they explore recurrent themes of feeling different and ashamed, including the shameful secrecy surrounding same-sex couples' financial matters. In uncoupling conventions, the contributors are effectively coupling post-Freudian psychoanalysis with the insights of queer theory and the critical edge of contemporary cultural studies. The result is a framework for addressing the relational and family-related challenges of gay and lesbian patients that ranges far beyond traditional approaches and will benefit analytic, couples, and family therapists alike.

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Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN-13
9780881632385
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94635236

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Subject Area
Organizational Sociology
Author
Jack Drescher, Ann D'ercole
Publication Name
Uncoupling Convention: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Same-Sex Couples and Families
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Education, Teaching
Publication Year
2004
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
192 Pages

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229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
431g

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Jack Drescher, Ann D'ercole
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United States

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