Sex and Gender Identity

Gender is Really Strange
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Part of the Really Strange series, this science-based graphic medicine comic addresses these questions and more, revealing the inherent messiness of gender identity and sex.

Bisexual Married Men: Stories of Relationships, Acceptance, and Authenticity
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This book is written about and for bisexual and questioning men so they can see their experience represented. However, it is also for their partners, family, and friends – as well as students, researchers, clinicians with bisexual clients, and allies – so that they can better understand the unique challenges of this identity and provide meaningful support.
This title is due to be published on the 30th November 2023. You can if you wish, order it now at our special pre-publication price and we will deliver it to you as soon as it becomes available.

Relationally Queer: A Pink Therapy Guide for Practitioners
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Relationally Queer explores diverse intimate relationship styles and the connections with self for clinician’s interested in Gender, Sex and Relationship Diversity. The book will help psychosexual and relationship therapists, counsellors and psychologists who work with clients of diverse genders, sexualities and relationships.
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Erotically Queer: A Pink Therapy Guide for Practitioners
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Erotically Queer is a practice guide for clinicians, bringing together experts in their field with pioneering topics within GSRD (Gender, Sex and Relationship Diversity).Chapters cover an array of topics rarely covered in either clinical or popular literature including lesbian sex, queer menopause, bisexuality, the sex lives of asexuals, sexuality and transgender people, treating anodyspareunia, compulsive sexual behaviours and Chemsex.

Gender Affirming Therapy: A Guide to What Transgender and Non-Binary Clients Can Teach Us
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This book aims to make the complexity of gender diversity accessible to those that, like the author, are starting from scratch. In this heavily political area, it is not uncommon for therapists to feel intimidated or concerned about saying something wrong. Meanwhile, clients also worry about sharing their own struggles with gender with a therapist, in case the therapist were to further stigmatize them. This book aims at bridging the gap, to ensure that more psychotherapists and counsellors feel prepared to support gender-diverse communities in a way that is effective, ethical and affirmative.

Spiritual Healing from Sexual Violence: An Intersectional Guide
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Spiritual Healing from Sexual Violence: An Intersectional Guide is a collection of essays from survivors, scholars, activists, spiritual leaders, and social justice practitioners that offers numerous intersectional and culturally competent options for women, men, and non-binary conforming adults to create their own safe healing conditions and establish pathways for recovery. These chapters provide a wide range of survival stories that raise awareness of the issues involved in healing after sexual assault and also provide inspiration for reforming negative societal issues and patterns. In a classroom setting, these chapters deliver both the culturally grounded knowledge and the skillsets necessary for recovery.

Psychoanalysis and Homosexuality: A Contemporary Introduction
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This important book examines the ways in which same sex desire, or “homosexuality” has been theorised by psychoanalysis during its history to date and the impact of that on clinical practice.

Queering Gestalt Therapy: An Anthology on Gender, Sex & Relationship Diversity in Psychotherapy
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Queering Gestalt Therapy is for everyone who is interested in gender, sex, and relationship diversity, especially as they relate to gestalt therapy practice. This book will be especially useful for therapists, supervisors, coaches, and students of gestalt therapy.

Beyond the Binary: Essays on Gender
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The increase in the number of non-binary children and adults in our society raises important treatment questions as well as much controversy. It seems essential that analysts and candidates grapple with the challenges this change in society presents. As we struggle in our psychoanalytic societies to diversify our membership and broaden our understanding of difference, this collection offers an opportunity for further discussion and study of one of the most important issues of our time.

Sexology – The Basics
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It is the ultimate guide to answering all the questions you never dared to ask, whether you are a student or a professional, or want to make sense of our often confusing erotic world.

Queering Psychotherapy
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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.

Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Non-Monogamy
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A practical guide to nurturing healthy, loving non-monogamous relationships using attachment theory.

The Queer Mental Health Workbook: A Creative Self-Help Guide Using CBT, CFT and DBT
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To be queer is to feel different – a felt sense that you don’t fit in. This can be alienating and difficult and lead to mental health challenges and lower wellbeing throughout life. Using a range of therapeutic approaches, this comprehensive, down-to-earth self-help workbook is designed to be your personal mental health resource. It is filled with techniques and activities you can read, tailor and ‘pick and mix’ to improve your wellbeing as a queer person, at your pace.

Supporting Trans People of Colour: How to Make Your Practice Inclusive
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An empowering and self-preserving tool, Supporting Trans People of Colour is an invaluable resource for therapists, counsellors, healthcare professionals, and those working in education and charities, as well as those wanting to make their approach and service more inclusive.
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A Clinician’s Guide to Gender Actualization: An Approach to Gender Affirming Therapy
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Challenging readers to explore intersectionality and the crucial awareness of their own privileges, this book is a critical read for providers working with or seeking to educate themselves regarding gender diverse clients.

Handbook of LGBTQ-Affirmative Couple and Family Therapy (2nd Edition)
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This comprehensive second edition inspires therapists to utilize clinical work to pragmatically address intersectional oppressions, lessen the burden of minority stress, and implement effective LGBTQ affirmative therapy.

Same-Sex Couples and Other Identities: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
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This book provides a contemporary exploration of psychoanalytic theory and its application to therapy with lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer relationships, challenging heteronormative practice and introducing new perspectives on working with gender and sexual diversity.

Transgender Identities: A Contemporary Introduction
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This important new book by Alessandra Lemma provides a succinct overview of psychoanalytic understandings, approaches, and controversies around transgender identifications.

Working with Autistic Transgender and Non-Binary People: Research, Practice and Experience
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Setting out advice, research and personal reflections to inform professionals’ daily practice and overall understanding of the lives and experiences of autistic transgender and non-binary people, this edited volume is an invaluable resource for anyone who seeks to engage more with autistic transgender, non-binary or gender-variant people.

Queering Your Therapy Practice: Queer Theory, Narrative Therapy, and Imagining New Identities
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Queering Your Therapy Practice: Queer Theory, Narrative Therapy, and Imagining New Identities is the first practice-based book for therapists that presents queer theory and narrative therapy as praxis allies.

Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments
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The aim of this book is to equip providers with both conceptual frameworks and concrete tools for better engaging their trans, non-binary, and gender expansive clients in pleasure-centered discussions of sexual health.

Gender Dysphoria: A Therapeutic Model for Working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults
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This book is aimed primarily at clinicians working in the field to provide a model for understanding, assessing, and treating gender dysphoria. The model uses a psychoanalytic framework to help explain disturbed states of mind and how psychic defences can be enlisted unconsciously to avoid overwhelming psychic pain. This offers professionals a way of trying to think with, and offer understanding to, their trans identifying clients.

Case Studies in Clinical Practice with Trans and Gender Non-Binary Clients: A Handbook for Working with Children, Adolescents, and Adults
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By enabling a greater knowledge of work with trans people and therefore filling an important gap in available literature, Case Studies in Clinical Practice with Trans and Gender Non-Binary Clients allows mental health providers to understand the nuanced differences of handling clinical concerns for their trans clients.

Sexuality: A Graphic Guide
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They’re back! Writer Meg-John Barker and artist Jules Scheele once again team up in this cheeky and informative comic-book follow-up to Queer and Gender.