Staying put in the closet: Examining clinical practice and countertransference issues in work with gay men married to heterosexual women

Clinical Social Work Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 195-201

  Alessi, Edward J ^a,b,c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRIVATE PRACTICE   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambivalence; Attachment; Countertransference; Gay men; Homophobia; Married gay men; Psychotherapy with gay men; Sexual identity; Trauma

Indexed keywords

EID: 43049129641     PISSN: 00911674     EISSN: 15733343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10615-007-0092-6     Document Type: Article

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