
Based on the authors' clinical psychotherapy experience, this study of lesbian lives and experiences suggests a new framework which does not generalize all lesbianism. It seeks to develop psychotherapeutic practice which is open to individual life histories, relationships and...


This groundbreaking book provides a challenging exploration of psychoanalytic ideas about lesbians and lesbianism. Based on the authors' clinical experience as psychoanalytic psychotherapists, it offers a new and thoughtful framework that does not inevitably pathologise or...

Based on the author's clinical experience as psychoanalytic psychotherapists, this reconsideration of lesbian lives and lesbian experiences offers a new and thoughtful framework that does not inevitably pathologize or universalize all lesbianism, but instead argues for the development...