Scientific Meeting: Psychoanalysis’ and Psychotherapy’s Troubled Encounter with Gay Men: How Our Disciplines Lost Their Way, and How They May Yet Find It.
Using historical analysis, Dr. Schwartz will offer an understanding of the sources of the devaluing of gay men in psychoanalytic and psychological theory. He situates the contradiction of our disciplines' theory and values that is inherent in the disparagement of male homosexuality, in the larger context of the history of xenophobia in the United States. This includes special […]