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Outside Looking in: Gay Male Psychotherapists Making Meaning at the Intersection of Identity.
- Source :
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Journal of Homosexuality . 2024, Vol. 71 Issue 2, p456-477. 22p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- A gay identity offers a perspective outside heteronormative narratives characterized by exclusion as well as a radical position of difference. Being a psychotherapist, too, holds complex implications for identity. This paper explores the lived experience of gay male psychotherapists, a group whose voice is seldom heard. Based on interviews with six White South African gay male psychotherapists, a narrative analysis explores their experience of identity and voice. This paper highlights the ways in which the journey to occupying oneself as gay and the journey of becoming a therapist are intertwined. The complex power relations evoked in this experience are explored, and the position of the gay male therapist as "outside looking in" is interrogated as a position of marginality that both excludes and provides a unique vantage point from which to challenge exclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00918369
- Volume :
- 71
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Homosexuality
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 174338542
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2022.2122362