2. Genetic Influences on Sexual Orientation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface to the Paperback Edition ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Part 1. Theoretical / Developmental
6. Introduction to Part 1 3
7. 1. Sexual Fantasies in Men and Women 5
8. 2. Genetic Influences on Sexual Orientation 38
9. 3. Psychoendocrinology and Sexual Orientation 59
10. 4. Psychoendocrinology and Role Behavior 72
11. 5. Freud, Oedipus, and Homosexuality 87
12. 6. Toward a Revised Formulation of Male Oedipal Aggression 98
13. 7. Late Childhood: The Significance of Postoedipal Development 118
14. 8. Female Homosexuality: Classical Psychoanalytic Theory Reconsidered 136
15. Afterword to Part 1 160
16. Part 2. Clinical
17. Introduction to Part 2 165
18. 9. Homophobia, Internalized Homophobia, and the Negative Therapeutic Reaction 167
19. 10. Internalized Homophobia, Pathological Grief, and High Risk Sexual Behavior in a Gay Man with Multiple Psychiatric Disorders 194
20. 11. Internalized Homophobia and Gender-Valued Self-Esteem in the Psychoanalysis of Gay Patients 205
21. 12. Homophobic Parents 218
22. 13. Psychopathology, Suicidality, and Homosexuality: New Developments 235
23. 14. Coming Out at Eighty-Four: The Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Internalized Homophobia in a Lesbian Patient 252
24. 15. Sexual Orientation and Psychoanalysis: Current Problems and Controversies 265
25. 16. Origins of the Model of Homosexuality as Psychopathology 284
26. References 309
27. Index 341