TY - BOOK AU - D'Ercole,Ann AU - Drescher,Jack TI - Uncoupling convention: psychoanalytic approaches to same-sex couples and families T2 - Bending psychoanalysis book series SN - 9781134894468 AV - RC451.4.G39 U536 2004eb U1 - 616.89/17/08664 22 PY - 2004/// CY - Hillsdale, NJ PB - Analytic Press KW - Psychoanalysis and homosexuality KW - Gay people KW - Mental health KW - Lesbians KW - Mental health services KW - Psychotherapy KW - Couples therapy KW - Couples Therapy KW - Homosexuality KW - psychology KW - Psychanalyse et homosexualité KW - Homosexuels KW - Santé mentale KW - Lesbiennes KW - Services de santé mentale KW - Thérapie de couple KW - PSYCHOLOGY KW - Movements KW - Psychoanalysis KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Gays KW - Homosexuelles Paar KW - gnd KW - Zweierbeziehung KW - Psychoanalyse KW - Familienbeziehung N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Cover; Uncoupling Convention; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Introduction; 1. Ozzie and Harriet Are Dead: New Family Narratives in a Postmodern World; 2. Gender ""In-Difference"": Gender Development in Lesbian-Parented Families; 3. Couples, Imagined; 4. The Interplay of Difference and Shame; 5. ""Is This Normal?"": Uncovering the Role of Homophobia in the Treatment of a Lesbian Couple; 6. Teasing Apart Gender, Object Choice, and Motherhood in Lesbian Relationships; 7. The Lesbian ""Great American Sperm Hunt"": A Sociological Analysis of Selecting Donors and Constructing Relatedness8. Passion, Play, and Erotic Potential Space in Lesbian Relationships; 9. One Plus One Equals One: Money Matters in Same-Sex Relationships; Index N2 - What does it mean to be member of a gay/lesbian couple or family? The contributors to Uncoupling Convention: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Same-Sex Couples and Families address this question by drawing on two cultural movements of the twentieth century: psychoanalysis and the gay/lesbian civil rights movement. Taken together, these traditions provide a framework for understanding, and providing psychotherapeutic assistance to, gay and lesbian patients who present with troubled relationships. The contributors to this volume espouse a clinical focus that supplants the heterosexual UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=602701 ER -