LGBTQ+ Psychoanalysts as Parents

What is it like being an LGBTQ+ parent? In June 2017, the American Psychoanalytic Association Committee on Gender and Sexuality sponsored a discussion group in the format of a round table that primarily included LGBTQ+ psychoanalysts speaking on the joys and challenges of parenting in a heteronormative world. (The + is used metaphorically to capture all the identities that fall outside traditional gender norms.) The goal of the discussion group was to describe the impact of all types of family relationships on child development and demonstrate how to foster a social environment in which all children and their families are valued, experience support and recognition, and in which discrimination and prejudice have no place. We are pleased to finally publish this updated paper, which is dedicated to the memory of Don Spivak, whose commitment to the welfare of children is dearly missed

Psychoanalytic theory · Unconscious mind · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications

• The Primal Father on the Parental Field

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• The Reproduction of Mothering

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• The Second Individuation Process of Adolescence

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• The Self and the Object World

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• Mother—infant interaction structures and presymbolic self‐ and object representations

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• Ghosts in the Nursery

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• On Human Symbiosis and the Vicissitudes of Individuation

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• The transmission of maternal disturbance to the infant

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• Aggression in the Service of Separation-Individuation

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• Rapprochement Subphase of the Separation-Individuation Process

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• Internalized Homophobia in Men

  Open Access•Donald Moss•The Psychoanalytic Quarterly•2002

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• Chaotic possibilities

  Open Access•Robert M Galatzer-Levy, Robert M Galatzer‐levy•The International Journal of…•2004

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• Rethinking Homosexuality

  Open Access•Ralph Roughton, Ralph E Roughton•Journal of the American…•2002

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• Oedipus or Orestes? Homosexual Men, Their Mothers, and Other Women Revisited

  Open Access•Scott J Goldsmith•Journal of the American…•2001

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• Separation-Individuation Phenomena in Adulthood

  Open Access•Calvin A Colarusso•Journal of the American…•2000

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• Parenthood As A Developmental Phase

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• Replacement Children

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