Joseph Nicolosi Boeken

In this groundbreaking book, Joseph Nicolosi uncovers the most significant factors that contribute to children's healthy sense of themselves as male or female.

This book explores a reparative psychotherapy based on an understanding of the development of gender identity, offering to help the non-gay homosexual, that is, one who is unhappy with his sexual orientation. A Jason Aronson Book

In 1973, when all the arguments were presented to the American Psychiatric Association both for and against the idea of homosexuality as pathology, it was the personal disclosures of gay men that had the most influence. Listening to their stories of frustration in treatment-and their newfound happiness through acceptance of a gay identity-the American Psychiatric Association voted to omit homosexuality as a diagnostic category. Now, twenty years later, Dr. Joseph Nicolosi presents the opposite kind of personal testimony. This testimony is from homosexual men who have tried to accept a gay identity but were dissatisfied, and then benefitted from psychotherapy to help free them of homosexuality. While each client has his unique story, Nicolosi has chosen eight men as representative of the personalities he has encountered in the twelve years during which he has treated over 200 homosexual clients. These men are engaged in a "two-front war"-an internal assault against their own unwanted desires, and an external battle against a popular culture that does not understand or value their struggle. In their own words, we hear these men's struggles to develop healthy, non-erotic male friendships. We hear of their fear and anger toward the men in their lives, and their strained relationships with the fathers they never understood. Nicolosi contends that every man possesses aspects of these clients: The frailty of Albert, the integrity of Charlie, the rage of Dan, the narcissism of Steve, and the ambivalence of Roger, to list some of them. Some readers of this book may be surprised by the directive style of Dr. Nicolosi's therapeutic intervention. In part, this is due to the editorial synthesis of the transcript. More importantly, however, reparative therapy does require a more involved therapist-a benevolent provocateur who departs from the tradition of uninvolved, opaque analyst to become a salient male presence. The therapist must balance active challenge with warm encouragement to follow the father-son model. T

Homoseksualizm. Nabyty czy wrodzony? A może jedno i drugie? Co zrobiłam nie tak? Co zrobiłem nie tak? – pytają rodzice dziecka, które swoim zachowaniem, słowami, pragnieniami wysyła sygnały, że nie umie być chłopcem – chociaż nim jest, nie chce być dziewczynką – chociaż nią jest. Jak odczytać te sygnały, jak na nie zareagować? Autorzy książki omawiają problem prehomoseksualizmu – zaburzeń tożsamości płciowej oraz dezorientacji płciowej u dzieci.

Der Psychotherapeut J. Nicolosi hat eine heilende Therapie entwickelt, in deren Verlauf er sich mit dem Patienten auf den Weg macht, zu einer männlichen Identität zurückzufinden. Acht Gesprächsprotokolle, ein Gruppengespräch sowie eine Zusammenfassung eröffnen einen Zugang zu dieser nach wie vor aktuellen Thematik.