Non-Fiction of Gay Interest
Homosexuality: A Changing Picture
by Dr Hendrik M Ruitenbeek (ed)
Publisher: Souvenir Press
London, UK

Year


1973 1st edition       
Cover / size: Hardback / h 22.2 cm * w 14.5 cm / 218 pp

Dustjacket?   yes

ISBN: 0285620614

Arbery Ref:   000969

Condition Very Good

Jacket: unclipped; tears / small pieces missing from top and bottom edges; discolouring, particularly spine. Boards (black with gilt lettering): slight denting of foot of spine. Front flyleaf: crease and erased pencil inscription. Pages clean apart from very slight stain on second-to-last leaf.

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Ruitenbeek: Homosexuality: A Changing Picture








Content:

Part 1: Acceptance and Integration: Sociological Perspectives
1. Homosexuality: The Formulation of a Sociological perspective; William Simon and John H Gagnon
2. The Dutch Situation; Hendrik M Ruitenbeek
3. "But he is a homosexual"; Benjamin DeMott
4. The Gay Student: A Psychopolitical View; Robert Liebert
5. Gay Liberation and Psychiatry; Frank Kameny
6. The Ethnography of Male Homosexual Relationships; David Sonnenschein
7. A Happy Birthday for Gay Liberation; Jonathan Black
8. Homosex: Living the Life; Faubion Bowers
9. An Open Letter on Homosexuality; Pierre-Claude Nappey
10. Meeting two hustlers: the doorway and the sofa; Arthur Bell
Part 2: Changes in Clinical Thought or After-Bieber: Clinical Perspectives
1. Review of Homosexuality Research (1960-66) and Some Implications for Treatment; Peter M Miller et al
2. Attitudes of Mental Health Professionals toward Homosexuality and Its Treatment; Joel Fort, Claude M Steiner and Florence Conrad
3. The Accursed Race; Robert Seidenberg
4. The Experience of Intimacy in Group Psychotherapy with Male Homosexuals; Keith W Johnsgard and Ray M Schumacher
5. A More Positive View of Perversions; Richard C Robertiello
6. Overt Male Homosexuals in continued group and individual treatment; Elizabeth Mintz
7. My homosexuality and my psychotherapy; James Coleman
8. The Myth of Bisexuality; Hendrik M Ruitenbeek



Background / Biography:

"Dr Ruitenbeek is a practicing psychoanalyst in New York City. He has written and edited over 26 books in the field of psycho- analysis and the social sciences. His previous books on homosexuality include The Problem of Homosexuality in Modern Society (N Y, Dutton, 1962) and Homosexuality and Creative Genius (N Y, Astor-Honor, 1969). He also serves on the faculty of the American Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and is the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Homosexual Community Counseling Center in New York City"

(from the notes on contributors)


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"The study of homosexuality today, except for a few rare and relatively recent examples, suffers from two major defects: it is ruled by a simplistic and homogeneous view of the psychological and social contents of the category 'homosexual', and at the same time it is nearly exclusively interested in the most difficult and least rewarding of all questions, that of etiology. While some small exceptions are allowed for adolescent homosexual experimentation, the person with a major to nearly exclusive sexual interest in persons of the same sex is perceived as belonging to a uniform category whose adult beaviour is a necessary outcome and, in a sense re-enactment of certain early and determining experiences. This is the prevailing image of the homosexual and the substantive concern of the literature in psychiatry and psychology today."

opening paragraph, 'Homosexuality: the Formulation of a Sociological Perspective, William Simon and John H Gagnon



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