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Book SynopsisThis landmark book is the first and only historical, cultural, and theoretical account of how male homosexuality has been viewed_and sometimes misconstrued_by the psychoanalytic tradition, from Freud through the 1980s.
Trade ReviewThis is an enormously important book. A work of profound scholarship and equally profound compassion, it places the psychoanalytic view of male homosexuality in historical perspective for the first time...Lewes brilliantly recaptures the views of the early analytic school and contrasts its complexity and comparative open-mindedness with the simplistic, polemical, and abusive dogma that subsequently gained hold...It is a model of dispassionate yet engaged research, a milestone in the restoration of human values. -- Martin Bauml Duberman, Lehmann College, CUNY
...after the death of Freud, American psychoanalysis provided strong support for the traditional prejudices against homosexuality in our society, often with devastating social and legal consequences. Kenneth Lewes's book is a carefully written, scholarly account of how its theories promoted this bigotry. The courage, candor, and honesty with which he treats this painful theme are admirable. -- Louis Crompton, author of Byron and Greek Love: Homophobia in 19th Century England
I think it is the best overview of the psychoanalytic attitudes toward homosexuality that I have read. It emphasizes how much psychoanalysts were prisoners of their own prejudices...Hopefully, this book will lead psychoanalysts to do the kind of critical examination of their own discipline and assumptions which every scholarly and scientific discipline should. Lewes has certainly finished enough data for them to start such an examination. -- Vern L. Bullough, author of Science in the Bedroom: A History of Sex Research
Lewes's book is perhaps the most important work on psychoanalysis and homosexuality since Freud ... All future attempts to understand psychoanalytic conceptualizations and treatments of homosexuality must now begin with Lewes's monograph. -- Ritch C. Savin-Williams, Cornell University
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Personal Reflection by Gilbert W. Cole Chapter 2 Foreword by Donald Moss Chapter 3 I. Introduction to the Twentieth-Anniversary Edition: A Celebration and a Warning Chapter 4 II. Freud Chapter 5 III. The Early Freudians: 1900–1930 Chapter 6 IV. Theoretical Overview I Chapter 7 V. The Theorists of the Oral Period: 1930–1948 Chapter 8 VI. Analytic Responses to the Kinsey Report Chapter 9 VII. Conservative Developments: 1948–1962 Chapter 10 VIII. Theoretical Overview II Chapter 11 IX. The Turnaround: 1962–1973 Chapter 12 X. A New Beginning: 1973–1982 Chapter 13 XI. Conclusions
