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Critical &
Experiential:Dimensions in
Gender and Sexual
Diversity
Edited by
Previn Karian
An introduction...
Critical & Experiential
is a multidisciplinary collection of chapters written from within the newly emerging field in gender and sexual diversity (GSD) that moves beyond the LGBTQ(IA) acronym to include non-binary and heterosexual variation. It brings together academics, practitioners and activists from the UK, US, Canada, Russia and India working in the fields of psychology, clinical psychology, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, counselling, sociology, cultural studies, political activism, legal consultancy and legal expert witnessing.
The contributions are primarily aimed at mental health, psychology and psychotherapy practitioners and teachers, as well as those working with psychological aspects of social sciences and legal theory. The concepts of ‘critical’ and ‘critique’ are reframed throughout as experientially provoked thinking and thought. This collection provides a practical reference handbook to critique our range and styles of learning, teaching and interventions in the GSD field. However, it is also a stimulus to broader questions about mental health in the psychological organization of social and professional values that, painfully, still demand to be voiced, if not critiqued.
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Critical & Experiential:
Dimensions in Gender and Sexual Diversity
ISBN (Pbk): 978-0-9957625-0-3 21st Nov 2016
ISBN (Hbk): 978-0-9957625-1-0 16th Jan 2017
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Chapter headings
Chapter 1
Uncoming Out
Ian Lucas
Chapter 2
The Problem with ‘Normal’: teaching and learning about gender and trans psychology
Jemma Tosh
Chapter 3
Images of Non-Binary People: how poor or absent representations of non-binary people diminishes understanding of lived experience
Jennie Kermode
Chapter 4
Beyond Genital: Restor(y)ing lesbian desire
Emily Skye
Chapter 5
Actualizing Gay Leathersex: a personal vignette
Nick Field
Chapter 6
An Analytic of Belonging: ‘Q’ people and the therapeutic potentials of transformation
Chris Shelley
Chapter 7
Alternative Sexuality: the Indian variation
Sudhir Kakar
Chapter 8
Transpersonal Approaches to LGBTQ Therapy
Keith Silvester
Chapter 9
How Did It Hurt: distinguishing between Intimate Partner Violence and BDSM in relationships
Rachel Anne Kieran & Elisabeth Sheff
Chapter 10
The Straight Spouse Network: meeting the needs of an invisible group
Amity P. Buxton
Chapter 11
Women Desiring Women: Reflections on the field
Di Hodgson & Emily Skye
Chapter 12
The Swinging Lifestyle: research and community findings for future psychological theory and practice
Ed Fernandes
Chapter 13
The Law vs LGBT Russia
Yael Demedetskaya
Chapter 14
Resilience in Polyamourous Families
Elisabeth Sheff
Chapter 15
Living Gay Leathersex: a relational source for therapeutic training and practice
Nick Field
Chapter 16
Gender and Imagining Sexual Diversity
Morgan Stebbins
What the critics say
‘I like the idea of critical thinking being applied to the lived experience, taking it out of the realms of academia and pedagogy. Through this, the chapters tell new stories of identity and desire through privileging lived experiences of knowledge and exposing how stories of identity and desire are embedded in cultural discourses.’
Dr. Angie Fee
Psychosynthesis Trust
'While Karian says he would have “preferred outrage and polemic”, the chapters come in a calmer register. As the editor he aims to preserve diverse writing styles in chapter revisions and to bridge community voices and uninformed professionals…this book admirably achieves what Karian sets out to do: looking at a range of ways gender and sexual diversity is experienced and lived.’
Grant Denkinson
Transformations: Journal for Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility (PCSR)
'This book is a hefty, extremely well researched and argued tome...profoundly interesting chapters in this book that challenge as much as inform…. Complex, insightful and filled with personal experiences, this is certainly food for thought.’
Eric Page
GScene
‘Any book about diversity needs to represent a mix of styles, authors and material. Karian and the contributors have created a successful book in its range of topics and depth with which they are covered. It is well edited to draw parallels and connections across the chapters…’
Alex Sanderson-Shortt
BACP Private Practice Journal
‘The multiplicity of authorial voices, representation of the range and spectrum of cultural, sexual, inter-relational experiences, theoretical perspectives, scholarship and passionate on the ground activism, makes for a very rich and highly informative collection that many working in different disciplines and modalities will benefit from.’
Barry Watt
The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis