Sexual Orientation and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

"This fine work is the culmination of many years of scholarship by two long-collaborating erudite psychiatry professors. Friedman and Downey designed this book for psychodynamically oriented therapists who are interested in modernizing their understanding of the origins of the homosexualities." -- Stephen B. Levine, M. D., Archives of Sexual Behavior "[H]ighly recommended because it presents a broad and encompassing view of current neurobiological research into sexual orientation. Further, it highlights in considerable detail a number of noteworthy, complicated clinical issues such as internalized homophobia, disclosure of the therapist's sexual orientation, the power of sexual fantasy, and gender development." -- Robert F. Tyminski, Journal of Analytical Psychology "[Friedman and Downey] have effectively documented the carnage caused by the current antagonism toward homosexual relations in males." -- Michael Ferguson, Journal of Homosexuality "The most clear thinking, completely erudite, and unbiased presentation of sexual research... that has yet been written." -- Roman N. Anshin, M.D., American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry "[Richard C. Friedman and Jennifer I. Downey] have been at the forefront of the movement within psychoanalysis challenging previously orthodox ideas... Friedman and Downey accurately discuss the dangers of psychoanalytic theorizing divorced from basic science and insist on a systems approach to human sexuality that integrates clinical and theoretical understanding." -- American Journal of Psychiatry " -- "A fascinating book... A vital contribution to the ongoing dialogue about how sexual desire arises from the interplay of human constitution and the human proclivity for love, fantasy and sexual expression." -- Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease