Basic and Applied Research in Human Sexuality: Current Limitations and Future Directions in Sex Therapy

Higginbotham, Howard N.; Farkas, Gary M.

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“…Although there was no such move in the UK, many clinicians during the late 1970s and early 1980s began to adopt models of treatment for homosexuals based on enhancing their homosexual identities and lives, rather than trying to eliminate them. As Higginbottom and Farkas (1977) have argued, many practitioners were adopting skills to ensure healthy adjustment in their clients' chosen sexual orientation (cited in Richardson 1987, p. 2). In 1992, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declassified homosexuality as a mental health illness (Pett 2000, p. 55), a stance yet to be adopted by those countries that continue to address homosexuality as a mental illness, perversion and/or serious criminal offence.…”

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Addressing key theoretical approaches to gay male sexual identity: issues and insights for practitioners of mental health

Casey

2009

Critical Public Health

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This article seeks to draw attention to understandings of sexual identity and practice beyond essentialist notions of sexuality for mental health professionals working with gay men. A number of key studies and articles are explored in the article, which offer both historical and contemporary discussions of sexuality in mental health research and the social sciences. Initially, the article examines the important changes in approaches to and understandings of homosexuality and gay male identity by mental health professionals. In so doing, it considers the strengths and limits of recent studies by Diaz et al. (2001) and Sandfort et al. (2006) into mental health and homosexuality. The article then goes on to highlight approaches to gay male identity within the social sciences, focusing, in particular, on the work of Richardson (1987) and the value of social constructionist approaches to sexuality for therapists and practitioners. Work by Gray (2000) is then drawn upon which he examines the worth and value of using social constructionist accounts of sexuality in therapeutic practice. The aim of the article is to draw attention to the limits of essentialist notions of sexuality and the potential value of social constructionist accounts of sexual identity for those working with gay men and their mental health needs.

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Addressing key theoretical approaches to gay male sexual identity: issues and insights for practitioners of mental health

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2009

Critical Public Health

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Basic and Applied Research in Human Sexuality: Current Limitations and Future Directions in Sex Therapy

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Addressing key theoretical approaches to gay male sexual identity: issues and insights for practitioners of mental health

Addressing key theoretical approaches to gay male sexual identity: issues and insights for practitioners of mental health

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