Positioning Identities - Lesbians' and Gays' Experiences with Mental Health Care (Paperback)

How do lesbians and gays negotiate their sexual identities in mental health care contexts? How do they manage the institutional homophobia and heterosexism embedded in health care practice and practitioners? Using interpretive phenomenology, Hazel Platzer overturns limiting dualisms to describe the ways in which lesbians and gays are silenced and pathologized in their mental health care encounters, how they resist, and how their resistance can restrict access to care. She highlights the difficulties of researching a sensitive topic with a relatively ahiddena population, and devises innovative techniques for handling bias and a multi-methods approach to the phenomenological study of experience and identities. She then offers proactive steps toward creating a health care environment in which lesbian and gay identities are normalized, improving both access to and quality of health care.

General

Imprint:	Left Coast Press Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	International Institute for Qualitative Methodology Series
Release date:	April 2006
First published:	2006
Authors:	Hazel K. Platzer
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	218
ISBN-13:	978-1-59874-292-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gay & Lesbian studies > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > Mental health services Promotions
LSN:	1-59874-292-2
Barcode:	9781598742923

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