Helping Men: A Psychoanalytic Approach

by Felix Loeb, Loretta Loeb

Overview

The authors do not specialize in, nor seek, patients with sexually deviant behavior. Occasionally, however, such patients have sought and received psychoanalytic treatment from them.. .. As the authors worked with them on their current thought processes and their transference responses to them, the authors were able to help each patient become aware of, understand, and resolve their underlying unconscious sexual conflicts. During each treatment, the authors carefully avoided being influenced and biased by the psychiatric or psychoanalytic literature. Instead, they investigated psychoanalytically each of their patients’ unconscious minds to discover and help the patients to understand their individual and distinct psychodynamics. Through this approach, they corroborated many of Freud’s and his follower’s findings, and discovered new facets of their patients’ respective illnesses.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780985132927
Publisher:	Aronson, Jason Inc.
Publication date:	09/10/2012
Pages:	169
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Loretta R. Loeb, MD (1932–2012) clinical professor, Department of Psychiatry, Oregon Health Sciences University

Felix F. Loeb, Jr., MD clinical professor, Department of Psychiatry, Oregon Health Sciences University

Table of Contents

Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction and Overview

Chapter 1 Literature Review of the Psychoanalytic
Understanding of Normal and Deviant
Sexual Development
Felix F. Loeb, Jr., MD and Loretta R. Loeb, MD

Chapter 2 The Psychoanalytic Treatment of an
Oedipal Male Homosexual
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Chapter 3 The Metamorphosis of a
Homosexual Man 25
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Chapter 4 The Psychoanalysis of a Man
with a Foot Fetish
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Chapter 5 Treatment of a Transvestite
Woman Abuser
Loretta R. Loeb, MD

Chapter 6 The Psychoanalytic Resolution of
Transvestite Symptoms in a Man
Felix F. Loeb, Jr., MD

Chapter 7 Treatment of Boys with the Gender-
Identity Disorder of Transsexualism
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Chapter 8 Transvestite Symptoms in an Adoptive
Father and Gender-Identity Symptoms in His
Adopted Son Due to the Same Early
Environmental Experiences
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Chapter 9 Conclusion
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What People are Saying About This

Douglas Van der Heide

Drs. Loretta and Felix Loeb’s recent book Helping Men . . . is a compact and rich work . . . In outlining psychoanalytic thinking regarding sexual deviant behavior, Drs. Loeb remind us that homosexuality, fetishism, transvestitism and, it would seem, gender identity disorder, represent a spectrum of compromise solutions to the threat of castration. . . . The authors take some pains to point out that the sexual deviations themselves are not, in any of the adult cases, the stated reason for starting treatment but emerge as sources of conflict and distress in the unfolding of the analyses. . . . Drs. Loeb do us a favor by reminding us of what we have already discovered, how those key discoveries can help men and how necessary it is to be optimistic, firm, and focused in obtaining optimal clinical results with them.

Sylvia Brody

This is a book of hope and compassion that describes in detail the analytic processes in the treatment of men whose sexualities are conflicted. The authors eschew political correctness as well as restrictive dogma. They provide their patients with the freedom to choose what they want and need rather than something imposed by the treaters. It is written by two psychoanalysts with many years experience helping men and women. It offers therapists models for empathic and effective treatment and practice.

Editorial Reviews

This is a book of hope and compassion that describes in detail the analytic processes in the treatment of men whose sexualities are conflicted. The authors eschew political correctness as well as restrictive dogma. They provide their patients with the freedom to choose what they want and need rather than something imposed by the treaters. It is written by two psychoanalysts with many years experience helping men and women. It offers therapists models for empathic and effective treatment and practice.

Sylvia Brody Ph.D

Drs. Loretta and Felix Loeb’s recent book Helping Men. .. is a compact and rich work. .. In outlining psychoanalytic thinking regarding sexual deviant behavior, Drs. Loeb remind us that homosexuality, fetishism, transvestitism and, it would seem, gender identity disorder, represent a spectrum of compromise solutions to the threat of castration.. .. The authors take some pains to point out that the sexual deviations themselves are not, in any of the adult cases, the stated reason for starting treatment but emerge as sources of conflict and distress in the unfolding of the analyses.. .. Drs. Loeb do us a favor by reminding us of what we have already discovered, how those key discoveries can help men and how necessary it is to be optimistic, firm, and focused in obtaining optimal clinical results with them.

Douglas Van der Heide

This is a book of hope and compassion that describes in detail the analytic processes in the treatment of men whose sexualities are conflicted. The authors eschew political correctness as well as restrictive dogma. They provide their patients with the freedom to choose what they want and need rather than something imposed by the treaters. It is written by two psychoanalysts with many years experience helping men and women. It offers therapists models for empathic and effective treatment and practice.

Sylvia Brody