The Course of Gay and Lesbian Lives

Preface
Acknowledgments
Part One: Homosexuality and Psychological Inquiry
1. Gay and Lesbian Lives and Psychoanalytic Inquiry
2. Perspectives on the Study of Sexual Orientation
Part Two: The Question of Origins and the Course of Psychosocial Development
3. Biology, Sexuality, and the Foundation of Human Sexual Orientation
4. Storied Accounts and Psychoanalytic Understandings of the Childhoods of Gay Men and Women
5. Adolescence and Youth: Realizing Gay and Lesbian Sexual Identity
6. Lesbian and Gay Lives across the Adult Years
Part Three: Gender Orientation and Issues in Psychoanalytic Intervention
7. Sexual Orientation and Personal Distress: Shame, Stigma, and Homophobia
8. Sexual Orientation and Evaluation of Personal Adjustment
9. Psychodynamics of Sexual Orientation
10. "Ego-Dystonic" Homosexuality and the Issue of Reparative Therapy
11. Psychoanalytic Intervention among Gay Men and Women
12. Self, Sexual Identity, and the Psychoanalytic Situation
Conclusion: Toward a Developmental Perspective on Gay and Lesbian Lives
References
Author Index
Subject Index