Sexuality and Gender Now: Moving Beyond Heteronormativity - Paperback

by Leezah Hertzmann (Editor), Juliet Newbigin (Editor)

Sexuality and Gender Now uses a psychoanalytic approach to arrive at a more informed view of the experience and relationships of those whose sexuality and gender may not align with the heterosexual 'norm'.

Author Biography

Leezah Hertzmann is a senior couple and individual psychoanalytic psychotherapist at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and in private practice. She has a career long interest in psychoanalytic theory and technique with LGBTQI populations and is a member of the British Psychoanalytic Council special advisory group on sexual diversity. In 2015, Leezah was the recipient of the British Psychoanalytic Council Award for Innovation. She teaches and publishes widely.

Juliet Newbigin is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with a long-standing interest in the impact of the wider social context on the development of individual identity within the family. She has been particularly concerned about the troubled history of the heteronormative understanding of sexual orientation in both psychoanalysis and Jungian analysis, and their failure to recognise the experience of the LGBTQI community. She currently chairs the British Psychoanalytic Council's Advisory Group on Sexual and Gender Diversity.