“…Several chapters of Queering Psychotherapy draw on classical psychodynamic and psychoanalytic theory as well as queer, Black, feminist, and trans theory; this might come as a surprise to those who are aware that psychoanalysis has a long history of pathologizing gender variance and different sexualities (Dean & Lane, 2001; O’Connor & Ryan, 1993). It would be easy to turn completely away from theory that has been used to pathologize and exclude not only queer and trans people, but also people of colour and the working class.…”