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Discussion of "Being Gay and Becoming a Psychoanalyst: Across Three Generations"
Ist Teil von
Journal of gay & lesbian psychotherapy, 2002-01, Vol.6 (1), p.67-75
Ort / Verlag
Binghamton: Taylor & Francis Group
Erscheinungsjahr
2002
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
The author discusses three papers of Roughton, Drescher and Leli on the subject of "Being Gay and Becoming a Psychoanalyst: Across Three Generations." The discussion reports that changes within the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) during this past decade have been remarkable. For Roughton, becoming an analyst involved denial and control of homosexual feelings and longings, acceptance of these feelings as psychopathology and a commitment to change. It involved the construction and careful maintenance of what he terms a public quasi-false self, which required exhausting constant self-monitoring lest his secret slip out. He consciously constructed a false façade designed to protect his secret. This is an experience that is familiar to many gay men and lesbians, whether they are in psychoanalytic training or not. While the APsaA made major strides in the past decade in terms of acceptance, progression and graduation of gay and lesbian candidates, Leli's experiences as an applicant, and later, as a candidate were clearly different than those of his heterosexual colleagues-apparently due to lingering concerns about how homosexual applicants and candidates are different. As Leli's experience demonstrated, having to defend one's difference as non-pathological to psychoanalytic interviewers and supervisors is a difficult task. Drescher's experience at the White Institute could serve as a model for integrating gay and lesbian analysts into the American Psychoanalytic Association: from none, to one, to a group, to integration. The motivations for the recent radical changes within psychoanalytic organizations toward lesbians and gay men is further explored.