The LGBT Casebook

Cover
Contents
Contributors
Foreword
Preface
PART I. Basic Principles
1 What’s in Your Closet?
2 Coming Out to Self and Others: Developmental Milestones
3 From Outlaws to In-Laws: Legal Standing of LGBT Americans’ Family Relationships
4 LGBT Parenting
5 Sexual Identity in Patient-Therapist Relationships
PART II. Case Studies
6 Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Distraction and Attraction: ADHD Diagnosis and Treatment in LGBT Patients
7 Substance Dependence: Methamphetamine: Dionysus Versus the Good Little Boy
8 Schizophrenia: Diagnosis or Difference?
9 Major Depressive Disorder: The Unhappy Ad Man: Major Depression in a Gay Man
10 Dysthymic Disorder: The Psychological Long-Term Nonprogressor
11 Bipolar Disorder: Identity Crisis
12 Panic Disorder: Seeing Superman
13 Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Homosexual and Pedophilic Obsessions in a 25-Year-Old Male
14 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Handle With Care
15 Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Jittery Joanne
16 Adjustment Disorder: Queer Stressors: Adjustment Disorder in a Lesbian Mother
17 Borderline Personality Disorder: Keeping the System Stable: A Systems Approach in Long-Term Treatment of a Patient With Borderline Personality Disorder
18 Parent-Child Relational Problem: When the Kids Are All Right, But the Parents Are Not: Coparenting in Planned LGBT Families
19 Partner Relational Problem: Listening Beyond Homo-Ignorance and Homo-Prejudice
20 Bereavement: Bereaved, Bothered, and Bewildered
21 Occupational Problem: The Case of Iris: Occupational Problems in the LGBT Community
22 Identity Problem: Doctor, Am I Gay? Identity Problems Associated With Homoerotism
23 Religious or Spiritual Problem: Damage and Repair
24 Acculturation Problem: I Am Fukushima (But You Can Call Me Lady Marmalade, Honey)
25 Phase of Life Problem: “It’s Just a Phase”: Phase of Life Problems and LGBT Development
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