Sexual Orientation and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy by Richard Friedman Jennifer Downey

Sexual Orientation and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy by Richard Friedman Jennifer Downey

Author:Richard Friedman, Jennifer Downey [Richard Friedman, Jennifer Downey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Gender Studies, Psychology, Human Sexuality, Psychotherapy, General, Social Work
ISBN: 9780231530217
Google: rnTO7mrWa14C
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2008-03-24T04:28:09+00:00


An Intermediate Group: The Internalized Homophobia Fault Line

In an intermediate group with regard to psychopathology-internalized homophobia are patients who develop along more or less normal (neurotic) lines but in whom intense manifestations of internalized homophobia are triggered by a life stressor of some type. Associated with generalized symptomatic regression are a nucleus of symptoms resulting in and from internalized homophobia.

The following vignette illustrates such a situation in a young woman who was a lesbian.



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