Designed for both the undergraduate and graduate classroom, this selection of important articles provides a comprehensive overview of current thought about the psychological issues affecting lesbians, bisexuals, and gay men. The editors have revised and updated the introduction and included a new set of articles for the second edition, most of which have been published since the release of the first edition of "Psychological Perspectives." The book is divided into eight sections that deal with the meaning of sexual orientation; the psychological dimensions of prejudice, discrimination, and violence; identity development; diversity; relationships and families; adolescence, midlife, and aging; mental health; and the status of practice, research, and public policy bearing on homosexuality and bisexuality in American psychology.

This book addresses organ transplantation from a psychoanalytical perspective. Where other authors consider topics of informed consent, scarcity and organ trade, Zwart explores the ways in which the practice fundamentally challenges our basic experience and image of the body, revolving around issues such as embodiment, ownership and bodily integrity. In organ transplantation, the body emerges as something which we simultaneously have and are-constituting a whole, as well as a set of partial objects that can be transplanted and replaced, donated and sold.

Das Autorenehepaar - seit uber 25 Jahren im Polizeiberuf tatig - beschreibt in theoretischer und empirischer Weise die sekundare traumatische Belastungsstoerung als Berufsrisiko fur Polizeibeamte. Die Ergebnisse der Studie mit uber 5000 oesterreichischen Polizeibeamten veranschaulichen unter anderem die geschlechtsspezifischen Unterschiede im Traumaerleben, in der Traumaverarbeitung und in den auftretenden physischen und psychischen Symptomen. Ausfuhrlich wird zudem der Einfluss potenziell traumatisierender Ereignisse auf das Koharenzgefuhl skizziert und deren Auswirkungen auf die psychische Gesundheit aufgezeigt.

Throughout U.S. history, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people have been pathologized, victimized, and criminalized. Reports of lynching, burning, or murdering of LGBTQ people has been documented for centuries Prior to the 1970s, LGBTQ people were deemed as having psychological disorders and subsequently subject to electroshock therapy and other ineffective and cruel treatments. LGBTQ people have historically been arrested or imprisoned for crimes like sodomy, cross-dressing, and gathering in public spaces. And while there have been many strides to advocate for LGBTQ rights in contemporary times, there are still many ways that the criminal justice system works against LGBTQ and their lives, liberties, and freedoms. Queering Law and Order: LGBTQ Communities and Fight for Justice examines the state of LGBTQ people within the criminal justice system. Intertwining legal cases, academic research, and popular media, the author reviews a wide range of issues - ranging from historical heterosexist and transphobic legislation to police brutality to the prison industrial complex to family law. Grounded in Queer Theory and intersectional lenses, each chapter provides recommendations for queering and disrupting the justice system. The book serves as both an academic resource and a call to action for readers who are interested in advocating for LGBTQ rights.

Sex with animals is one of the last taboos but, for a practice that is generally regarded as abhorrent, it is remarkable how many books, films, plays, paintings, and photographs depict the subject. So, what does loving animals mean? In this book the renowned historian Joanna Bourke explores the modern history of sex between humans and animals. Bourke looks at the changing meanings of "bestiality" and "zoophilia," assesses the psychiatric and sexual aspects, and she concludes by delineating an ethics of animal loving.

Was haben wir aus der sexuellen Befreiung gemacht? Nach 50 Jahren sexueller Revolution ist so viel Sex im oeffentlichen Raum wie seit der Antike nicht mehr. Doch wie beeinflusst dies die heutigen Jugendlichen? Dieses Buch deckt Auswirkungen und Zusammenhange der sexuellen Befreiung auf. Basierend auf langjahriger Erfahrung in der schulischen Sexualaufklarung und gestutzt durch viele anschauliche Beispiele schildert die Autorin minutioes und bisweilen erfrischend malizioes, was und wie Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene heute uber Sexualitat denken. Obwohl sich diese sexuell befreit fuhlen, unterliegen sie doch vielfaltigen Zwangen. Ohne ein Blatt vor den Mund zu nehmen vermittelt die Autorin anhand von vielen Beispielen, welche Auswirkungen Faktoren wie eine Bagatellisierung der Porno-Kultur, permanentes Leistungsstreben, hormonelle Verhutung und eine zwanghafte Suche nach sexueller Orientierung nach sich ziehen. Dabei wird deutlich, dass es ein Irrglaube ist, dass sich die Sexualitat als Konsumgut instrumentalisieren und beherrschen, padagogisch vermitteln, sozial konstruieren sowie pharmazeutisch und chirurgisch optimieren lasst. Das reale Liebesleben koennte sonst viel Leere, Frustration, Verunsicherung und Einsamkeit erfahren. Das Buch regt dazu an, das Wagnis einzugehen, sich den damit verbundenen Fragen des Lebens zu stellen und den Lernprozess der Sozialisierung im Bereich von Liebe, Sex und Beziehungen neu zu uberdenken.

Bestselling authors Christine Arylo and Amy Ahlers show women how to take their self-bullying Inner Mean Girls to reform school with their internationally recognized seven-step program. There is a silent epidemic spreading like wildfire among women-and no one seems to be talking about it. It's in our boardrooms, classrooms, and living rooms on every continent, and it's creating depression, stress, and isolation. Who is this culprit? Meet your Inner Mean Girl, the judgmental, critical, and belittling inner bully that almost every woman hears running through her mind on a daily basis. The Inner Mean Girl creates undue anxiety, cajoles you into making bad choices, and then berates you when they don't work out. But there is a cure. Reform Your Inner Mean Girl introduces the universal seven-step program that helps women transform their relationships with themselves from self-sabotage to self-love. With a mix of play, humor, creativity, and self-inquiry, Reform Your Inner Mean Girl transforms a woman's self-bullying thoughts, emotions, actions, and feelings, and helps her get in touch with a much more powerful voice-her Inner Wisdom. After graduating, women can finally make choices that create more happiness, peace, love, and success.

Former porn star, Christopher Zeischegg (aka Danny Wylde), gathers six years of writing into one definitive collection. A memoir of an adult film career from beginning to end and a life lived after, marked by post-porn dysphoria. Interspersed with select fiction, Zeischegg writes about youthful naivete, sex worker love, pro-porn activism, disenchantment, and violence. Body to Job is the ex-porn star's third book, and his most comprehensive to date-an explicit work of vulnerability, longing, terror, and life.

In ihrer Arbeit untersucht Vera Esser die Wirkung der erlebten Gerechtigkeit in der beruflichen und privaten Rolle auf das Burnout-Risiko. Sie zeigt: je weniger Gerechtigkeit erlebt wird, desto eher treten Burnout-Symptome auf, wobei die Wechselwirkung zwischen der erlebten beruflichen und privaten Gerechtigkeit bei Mannern und Frauen jedoch unterschiedlich ausfallt. Manner scheinen einen Gerechtigkeitsvergleich zwischen der beruflichen und privaten Rolle vorzunehmen, bei dem sich private Gerechtigkeit als Risikofaktor fur Burnout herauskristallisiert. Bei Frauen hingegen stellt sich private Gerechtigkeit als Schutzfaktor vor einer Burnout-Erkrankung dar.

Prior to 2000, it was a criminal offence to sell hardcore pornography in Britain. Despite this, there was a thriving alternative economy producing and distributing such material "under the counter" of Soho's bookshops and via mail-order. British entrepreneurs circumvented obscenity laws to satisfy the demand for uncensored adult films and profit from their enterprise, with the corrupt Obscene Publications Squad permitting them to trade. By the late 1960s, Britain had developed an international reputation for producing 'rollers', short films distributed on 8mm, which were smuggled out of Britain for sale in Western Europe. Following an expose by Britain's tabloid press, a crackdown on police corruption and several high-profile obscenity trials, the trade was all but decimated, with pornography smuggled in from Europe dominating the market. Under the Counter is the first book of its kind to investigate Britain's trade in illicit pornographic 8mm film. Drawing on extensive archival research, including the use of legal records, police files, media reportage, and interviews with those who were involved in the business, Under the Counter tells the story of Britain's trade in 8mm hardcore pornographic films and its regulation, incorporating ideas from cultural studies, political economy, history and criminology. Under the Counter is a scholarly monograph that will be of interest to researchers across a wide range of disciplines and will be of use to students at undergraduate, Masters level and PhD. The book will be of particular relevance to students and researchers interested in the study of pornography, sexual cultures, illicit media enterprise and entrepreneurship, but also those with an interest in film production and distribution, particularly within a British context. The theoretical frameworks that underpin the book mean that researchers with an interest in the creative industries will be able to make use of it and the book makes a contribution to media and cultural history. It is suitable for use on university courses relating to these specific areas, specifically media and communication, film studies, creative industries, and potentially on criminology or socio-legal studies, given the books attention to obscenity law and regulation of illicit practices.

Wieso verdienen Frauen weniger Geld als Manner? Was hindert ihren Aufstieg in Fuhrungspositionen? Das vorliegende Buch tragt die sozialpsychologische Fachliteratur uber den Einfluss des Geschlechts auf Wahrnehmung und Handlung im Arbeitsumfeld allgemeinverstandlich zusammen. Damit liefert es einen praktisch nutzbaren umfassenden Einblick in aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse. Das dargestellte Wissen sollten Personalverantwortliche und Gleichstellungsbeauftragte kennen, und es kann in verschiedenen Situationen des Arbeitsalltags gewinnbringend genutzt werden. Das Buch stellt sozialpsychologische Ergebnisse vor und beleuchtet auf deren Basis praktische Fragestellungen.

Julia Kaup erforscht in diesem Buch die Grunde fur die mangelnde Reprasentanz von weiblichen Fuhrungskraften mittels Konzeption eines Ursachen-Modells. Die Untersuchung zeigt, dass die Ursache der Unterreprasentanz in einem komplexen Wirkungszusammenhang von politischen, sozio-kulturellen sowie oekonomischen und betrieblichen Einflussfaktoren begrundet liegt und sich damit deutlich vielschichtiger darstellt, als im bisherigen Forschungsstand angenommen. Die Analyse der Entwicklung weiblicher Partizipation am Erwerbsleben ermoeglicht zudem die Berucksichtigung historisch bedingter Einflusse. Insgesamt koennen so geeignete - auf die Ursachen abgestimmte - Handlungsempfehlungen fur Politik und Praxis abgeleitet werden.