Counseling our own : lesbian/gay subculture meets the mental health system / Charna Klein.

  • Klein, Charna
Date:
[1991]
  • Books

About this work

Description

This is the first and only book existing on the lesbian/gay counseling service, mental health movement in the United States. It covers how gay counseling services arose from the lesbian/gay subculture and gay movement, why they were needed, their history, organization, philosophy, staff, clients, and relationship with their lesbian/gay communities and the established mental health system. It provides recommendations and advocates measures the on-gay mental health professionals and agencies. It chronicles lesbian/gay history and the struggle for positive mental health services in a context of cultural homophobia and labeling gays as mentally ill.

Publication/Creation

Seattle, WA : Consultant Services Northwest, [1991]

Physical description

xxix, 232 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm

Related material

This item was donated as part of The Women's Health Library archive held by Wellcome Collection, reference SA/WHL https://wellcomecollection.org/works/fjg4s86y

Edition

Second edition.

Notes

"New preface on A.I.D.S."--Cover.
Copy 1. Donor: This item was originally held in the Women's Health Library. It was donated to Wellcome in 2016 by the Feminist Library, which acted as temporary custodian following the closure of Women's Health in 2006.
Copy 1. Former Women's Health Library shelfmark: V

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-232).

Contents

1. What is counseling? -- 2. Established mental health institutions -- 3. Lesbian/gay subculture -- 4. Lesbian/gay mental health institutions -- 5. The nitty-gritty history -- 6. Growth without cooptation -- 7. Politics, by example -- 8. Questions for the future.

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Where to find it

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    M26130

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Identifiers

ISBN

  • 0961721618
  • 9780961721619