Queering Psychotherapy

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LGBTIQ+ people are more likely than cisgender and heterosexual individuals to suffer with mental health issues, yet often have poorer therapeutic outcomes. Mainstream Eurocentric psychotherapeutic theories, developed largely by heterosexual, cisgender and white theorists, tend to see LGBTIQ+ as a singular group through this othered lens. Despite the undeniable value offered by many of these theories, they and those who use them queer therapists included can often pathologize, marginalize, misunderstand and diminish the flourishing and diversity of queer experience.

In this volume, editor and psychotherapist Jane C. Czyzselska speaks with practitioners and clients from diverse modalities and lived experiences, exploring and rethinking some of the unique challenges encountered in a world that continues to marginalize queer lives.

The contributors to Queering Psychotherapy present key insights and practical advice in a dynamic conversational format, providing intimate access to therapists personal and professional knowledge and reflections. This book is an invaluable training in itself.

Reviews

Should be a compulsory read for anyone in the field, however
they choose to identify.

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Dr.
Aaron Balick, Psychotherapist and author

The space of therapy can feel claustrophobic . . . An airless
room fraught with misunderstandings. This book is a reservoir of information,
knowledge and professional understandings which seek to widen out that space
into a comfortable queer landscape. Invaluable.

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Juno
Roche, Writer

Excellent . . . a testament to just how psychotherapy can
come together when it steps outside of the heteronormative, able-bodied, white,
middle class constraints within which it has been entangled almost since its
inception. This book is essential reading and needs to be studied on courses
around the country.

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Dr.
Dwight Turner, Psychotherapist, Supervisor and Workshop Facilitator

Author Bio

Jane C.Czyzselska (they/she) is a relational integrative psychotherapist and counsellor in private practice, a journalist and a writer. They are a trustee of The Relational School and an editorial advisor forTherapy Today.