Feeling Queer or Queer Feelings?: Radical Approaches to Counselling Sex, Sexualities and Genders

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Feeling Queer or Queer Feelings? presents highly innovative and contemporary ideas for counsellors, counselling and clinical psychologists and psychotherapists to consider in their work with non-heterosexual clients. Ground-breaking ideas are presented by new thinkers in the area for issues such as: coming out transgender desire theoretical modalities in working with HIV the role of therapy in bondage and discipline, domination and submission, and sadomasochism the use of queer theory in therapeutic research. Feeling Queer or Queer Feelings? will challenge present ideas about sex, gender and sexuality, and will prove to be invaluable for clinicians in this field. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Queer(y)ing a psychosocial approach to sex, sexuality and gender in therapeutic settings The Noah's ark of therapy Queer solutions Reference 2. Queer dilemmas: The problem of power in psychotherapeutic and counselling practice Introduction What is Queer Theory? Dismantling the closet Michel Foucault and Judith Butler Psychotherapeutic authority Social constructionist therapy Conclusion: queer dilemmas Notes References 3. Are you angry or are you heterosexual? A queer critique of lesbian and gay models of identity development The Cass Identity Model Evidence and extant critique Queer theory and LGBTQ development The need for a hermeneutic of suspicion Queer therapy in practice Conclusion Notes References 4. Queer(y)ing the heterosexualisation of emotion Lulu – straight, lesbian, bisexual or queer? The heterosexualisation of emotion Background The regulation of emotion and sexuality Shifting meanings Therapy as a regulatory system of emotion Constructing emotion worlds How does this operate within the therapeutic arena? What the research found: competing discourses of emotion and feeling frames A queer stance towards emotion Notes References 5. Queer(y)ing intersex: Reflections on counselling people with intersex conditions Background Clinical approaches to intersex Traditional accounts Alternate approaches – harnessing Freudian psychoanalytic theory Conclusion Notes References 6. Queer(y)ing gender and sexuality: Transpeople's lived experiences and intimate partnerships Introduction Background The instability of gender and sexuality Decentring of genitalia Limits of medical approaches within counselling and therapy Implications for treatment Presentation of the self Relationships with others Trans-trans partnerships Desiring transpeople Public recognition Legal recognition Queer theoretical insights Conclusion: considerations for counsellors and therapists Notes References Resource list 7. Queer in practice: Therapy and queer theory Background An alternative approach A postmodern approach A `non-expert' stance Multiple perspectives Levels of context The hierarchical model of coordinated management of meaning The use of teams Deconstructionist practices Political and ethical stance Queer(y)ing psychology training Conclusion References 8. Kinky clients, kinky counselling? The challenges and potentials of BDSM Introducing BDSM BDSM as queer Dominant discourses of BDSM and negative client experiences Positive experiences and good practice with BDSM clients Conclusions Notes References 9. Queer methodologies Experimental and queer subcultures How do you identify? Experiments with normativity Conclusion Notes References Glossary Appendix Index