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Counseling Our Own : Lesbian/gay Subculture Meets The Mental Health System by Charna Klein is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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xxix, 232 pages : 22 cm 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 "New preface on A.I.D.S."--Cover Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-232) 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

Author

Charna Klein

Publisher

Consultant Services Northwest, Incorporated

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780961721619