Description
Relationally Queer explores diverse intimate relationship styles and the connections with self for clinicians interested in gender, sex and relationship diversity.
Offering readers a more inclusive and queer-friendly way of thinking about relationships, the book covers a range of topics that include intersectionality, consensual non-monogamy, working with shame, intimate partner violence, religious identities, and living with HIV. Exploring beyond a Eurocentric perspective, the book features a chapter on African-centred therapy and also includes the relationships of often erased populations such as bisexual people, sex workers, people with chronic health issues and trans people.
The book will help psychosexual and relationship therapists, counsellors and psychologists who work with clients of diverse genders, sexualities and relationships.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Silva Neves and Dominic Davies
1. Getting real about monogamism: Disrupting mononormative bias in sex therapy and relationship counselling
Dr Y Gávriel Ansara
2. Loving Freedom (beyond monogamy- opening up a dyad)
Niki D
3. Common Presenting Issues in Consensual Non-Monogamy
DK Green
4. When Sex, Health & Stigma Collide: Counselling People who Sex Work (and their partners)
Cyndi Darnell
5. The Trans Compass: A way of hearing and understanding trans people's relationships with their identities
Ellis Morgan
6. Working with Bi+ Clients: Considerations for Individual and Relationship Therapy
Dr Susannah Grant
7. Sankofa's Quest: Cultivating Queer, African-centred, homecomings through intersectionality in therapy
Joel Simpson
8. Working with Intimate Partner Violence in GSRD Intimate Relationships
Rima Hawkins
9. Exploring the impact of a religious background or identity on LGBTQ people
Saquib Ahmad
10. Chronic Health Issues, Disability and Queer People
Dr Alex Iantaffi
11. The impact of Antiretroviral Therapies and PrEP on Gay Men
Guillermo Llorca
12. GSRD-Affirmative Supervision of Psychotherapy
Daniel Bak
13. Living and Working within our Communities
Dominic Davies
Conclusion
Silva Neves and Dominic Davies
