Autorentext

Dominic Davies is the Founder of Pink Therapy, a UK organisation that is committed to improving the mental health of gender, sex, and relationship diversities. He has been working as a psychotherapist, clinical sexologist, and practice consultant for over forty years, pioneering in the UK the development of GSRD Therapy as a new specialist field of clinical practice.

Silva Neves is an award-winning, COSRT-accredited, and UKCP-registered psychosexual and relationship psychotherapist and a trauma psychotherapist. He is a Pink Therapy Clinical Associate and works extensively with the LGBTQ+ communities. He speaks internationally.

Antonio Prunas, PhD, is a licensed psychologist, psychotherapist, and sex therapist, living and working in Milan, Italy. He is a Pink Therapy Clinical Associate and Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology at the Department of Psychology of Milano-Bicocca State University.

Klappentext

This seminal book is the original and definitive text presenting gender, sex and relationship diversity (GSRD) therapy as its own therapeutic approach rather than simply a set of techniques or "add on" to other modalities in working with LGBTQ+ clients and other marginalised populations.

This edited volume draws on the expertise of international clinicians who offer contemporary perspectives as well as modernising traditional psychotherapeutic theories. The book introduces the modality by explaining the essence of GSRD therapy: its history, philosophy and theories, as well as what it is used for and how it is practiced. It sets the landscape for GSRD therapy, centred on its seven core components. It focuses on specific populations and themes that are prevalent in the GSRD communities, yet often not written about or discussed in core clinical training, such as working with queer and trans young people, parenting, working with serious mental health difficulties, and ageing and the end of life. It also covers topics such as neurodivergence, self-harm, and body image.

The book is a critical resource for clinicians worldwide, particularly those working with or interested in working with populations who do not fit the dominant "norm" of heteronormativity and mono-normativity and those who are gender-expansive.

Inhalt

Part 1: The essence of GSRD therapy

Chapter 1: What is Gender, Sex, and Relationship Diversity Therapy? (Antonio Prunas)

Chapter 2: What do GSRD therapists do? (Dominic Davies)

Chapter 3: Key elements of GSRD therapy (Silva Neves)

Chapter 4: Obligatory, not optional, the development of the GSRD therapist (Agata Loewe-Kurilla)

Part 2: Integrating GSRD therapy

Chapter 5: Integrating GSRD Therapy - Exploration and affirmation: bridging the great divide (Paul Christopher Mollitt)

Chapter 6: Staring at Shadows (Karen Pollock)

Chapter 7: Distress directed towards our own Queer Bodies and Lives: A Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) informed approach to clinical work with people who identify as GSRD (Dr James Lea & Dr Brendan J Dunlop)

Chapter 8: A figure of the affirmed self: Gestalt and GSRD Therapy meet (Daniel B k)

Chapter 9: Internal Family Systems (IFS) to support GSRD people dealing with body image difficulties (Alessio Rizzo)

Chapter 10: Biopsychosocial - and mysterious! A Queer Jungian perspective on the meaning of GSRD (George Taxidis)

Chapter 11: Mentalising Internalised Stigma (Wilson Gallego Hoyos)

Chapter 12: Mirror Ball Encounters. Group therapy with GSRD Communities (Niki D and Tim Foskett)

Chapter 13: Decolonising the Vision of Wellbeing in Emotional Psychosexual and Relational Health for GSRD Clients (Rima Hawkins)

Part 3: Special interests in GSRD therapy

Chapter 14: Working with LGBTQ+ youth (Cat Johnston and Maria Kindstedt)

Chapter 15: The Spectrum of Family: Navigating the Challenges and Triumphs of Queer Parenting (Daniel Morrison)

Chapter 16: Queer Spirituality in Counselling and Psychotherapy (Matthew Cormack)

Chapter 17: Queer Aging and Endings (Christian Schulz-Quach & Margo Kennedy)