Clinical Encounters in Sexuality : Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory
- Submitting institution
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University of Ulster
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 76636571
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Punctum Books
- ISBN
- 9780998531854
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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https://punctumbooks.com/titles/clinical-encounters-in-sexuality-psychoanalytic-practice-and-queer-theory/
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 21 - Sociology
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This book arose from an eight-year interdisciplinary research project which brought together clinical psychoanalytic thinking and theories of sexuality. This project was made possible by Giffney and Watson occupying dual roles as academic researchers and clinicians. Sexuality tends towards reification in clinical practice. One can tell clinicians about, and how to work with, diversity, however, the experience is unlikely to make an impact on practice, because this way of communicating is quite intellectual. It is necessary to offer people an experience and an encounter with the material and with themselves.
This book is designed to evoke a self-reflective attitude in clinical readers about assumptions they might hold about sexuality and the impact of such preconceptions on clinical work. This is achieved through the way in which the book is designed as a series of encounters, which required meticulous coordination and thinking through of the book’s overall premise and structure, each section, and the thirty invited contributors. The book is the first sustained attempt to bring clinical psychoanalysis and queer theory together, as well as being unique in its performative approach to clinical research and training. It is also one of the few occasions when such a broad range of psychoanalytic traditions meet together discursively. It shows the practical intervention queer theory can make outside academia.
Clinical reading groups in Europe, the USA and Australia have used this book to facilitate conversations about therapeutic work. Large international conferences were organised at the National Museum of Decorative Arts and History, Dublin and the Freud Museum, London. Giffney was an invited speaker at the British Psychoanalytic Council’s conference in London and the Sexuality Summer School at the University of Manchester. The international, peer-reviewed journal, Studies in Gender and Sexuality dedicated a special issue to the book with eight invited academic and clinical responses.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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