Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man

Investigation into the temperature dependence of isotropic- nematic phase transition of Gay- Berne liquid crystals

Density functional approach was used to study the isotropic- nematic (I-N) transition and calculate the values of freezing parameters of the Gay- Berne liquid crystal model. New direct and pair correlation functions of a molecular fluid with Gay- Berne pair potential were used. These new functions were used in density functional theory as input to calculate the isotropic- nematic transition den...

Rethinking Reification: Marcuse, Psychoanalysis, and Gay Liberation

‘The Good, the Bad and Defenceless Jimmy’—A Single Case Study of Schema Mode Therapy

This paper presents a single case study, which outlines the innovative application of a new approach to working with a complex clinical case, for whom all other forms of therapy, including drug therapy, psychoanalytic therapy, hypnotism and traditional CBT interventions, had been found to be ineffective. It describes the use of Jeffrey Young’s Schema Mode Therapy in the treatment of a 47 year o...

The Impact of Social Roles on Stereotypes of Gay Men

Past research demonstrates that heterosexuals perceive gay men to have traditionally feminine characteristics. Guided by Social Role Theory (Eagly, 1987), we predicted that this stereotype would differ depending on a gay man’s specific social role. To test this idea, participants rated five gay targets (father, single man, hairdresser, truck driver, typical gay man) on stereotypically masculine...

A review on addiction from a psychoanalytic view, from fixation to emotion dysregulation

Addiction is a chronic and recurrent disease, which has always been the focus of various psychological perspectives. Psychoanalysis theories are fundamental in the modern treatment of addiction. As we have seen changes in the structure and process of methods during the time, they have changed in defining the concept of addiction. According to classic theories, addiction is an equivalent to mast...