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Further readingClick on the image to buy the book from Amazon, or visit Word Power bookshop at www.word-power.co.uk
Counselling booksFor clientsSome Information about Counselling with Gay Men’s Health Gay Men’s Health 2003
COMMENTS – This small booklet is available free from Gay Men’s
Health, and provides some basic information on our counselling services.
You can pick the booklet up from our office, ask for it to be mailed
to you, or view it online: It’s Your Hour - A Guide to Queer-Affirmative Psychotherapy 
Alyson Books 2001 Psychotherapy and Being Queer COMMENTS – Although written for an American audience, this book explains what counselling can provide and talks about choosing a counsellor if you are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. America has a different system for the provision of counselling which will means some of this book does not translate very well. However, most of the book Is relevant to anyone looking for counselling. Counselling for Toads 
Routledge 1997, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd ISBN: 0415174295 COMMENTS – This easy-to-read book explains a bit about Transactional Analysis counselling through the characters from Wind in the Willows. Toad is depressed and seeks the help of a counsellor (Heron). As the counselling progresses we get to understand a bit more about Transactional Analysis and how it works.
For counsellorsPink Therapy - A guide for counsellors and therapists working with lesbian, gay and bisexual clients 
Open University Press 1996 ISBN 0-335-19145-2
COMMENTS – A good introductory text aimed primarily at heterosexual counsellors working with lesbian, gay and bisexual clients. Unfortunately has little or no discussion of transgender. Pink Therapy 2 - Therapeutic perspectives on working with lesbian, gay and bisexual clients 
Open University Press 2000 ISBN 0-335-20333-7 Analytical Psychology COMMENTS – An examination of specific counselling theories and their application to working with lesbian, gay and bisexual clients. Pink Therapy 3 - Issues in therapy with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender clients 
Open University Press 2000 ISBN 0-335-20331-0 COMMENTS – A wider examination of some issues which may come up when working with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender clients. Handbook of Counseling and Psychotherapy with Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Clients 
American Psychological Association 2000 ISBN 1-55798-610-X I) SOCIAL AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES COMMENTS : Although written for an American audience, this book provides a thorough and fairly in-depth introduction to working with LGBT clients. A Guide to Psychotherapy with Gay and Lesbian Clients CLICK HERE TO BUYHarrington Park Press 1985 ISBN 0-918393-03-5 Introduction : Present and Future Directions in Gay/Lesbian Mental
Health COMMENTS : Now a little bit out of date, and can be difficult to get hold of. However, offers an easy introduction to some specific issues (lesbian counsellors working with lesbian clients, working with couples in same-sex relationships, religious conflicts etc). Gay and Lesbian Mental Health - A Sourcebook for Practitioners CLICK HERE TO BUYHarrington Park Press 1997 ISBN 1-56023-936-0 Narcissism and Egocentricity in Gay Men Changing Our Minds: Lesbian Feminism and Psychology CLICK HERE TO BUYOnlywomen Press Ltd 1993 ISBN 0906500-47-8 Feminism or Psychology COMMENTS : This books takes a critical look at the traditional models of counselling and psychology when working with lesbians. Treating the Psychological Consequences of HIV 
Jossey-Bass Publishers 1997 ISBN 0-7879-0314-0 Transference and Countertransference COMMENTS : This book provides a useful and well-written introduction to some of the issues when working with people living with HIV. It is accessible and very much geared towards practitioners increasing their knowledge and confidence. Counseling Gay Men and Lesbians - a Practice Primer 
Brooks / Cole 2002 ISBN 0-534-55084-3 Sexual Orientation : Social and Cultural Context COMMENTS : A basic introduction to working with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender clients written primarily for an American audience. While basic, it provides too short an introduction to be of much use. Counselling Same-Sex Couples CLICK HERE TO BUYW.W. Norton & Company 1990 ISBN 0-393-70107-7 Defining Populations and Practices COMMENTS – This book is a bit dated and makes too many generalisations about the nature of same-sex couples. It may be more useful to read general texts on counselling couples and make sure you feel knowledgeable and comfortable working with LGBT people. Being Homosexual - Gay Men and Their Development 
Jason Aronson Inc 1989 ISBN 1-56821-276-3 What Is Homosexuality? COMMENTS : Written by a gay psychoanalyst, this book examines gay men from a psychoanalytic / psychodynamic perspective. Looks at non-pathologising ways to apply Freudian developmental theory to gay men. Becoming Gay - The Journey to Self-Acceptance 
Henry Holt & Company 1996 ISBN 0-8050-5315-8 Becoming Gay: A Personal Odyssey COMMENTS : This more personal book by Richard Isay further examines working with gay men from a psychodynamic / psychoanalytic perspective. Education, Research and Practice in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Psychology - A Resource Manual 
Sage Publications 2000 ISBN 0-8039-5383-6 Beyond Heterosexism and Across the Cultural Divide: Developing and
Inclusive Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Psychology: A Look to the Future
For counselling supervisorsCounselling Supervision in Context 
Sage Publications 1999 ISBN 0-7619-5789-8 Supervision and racial characteristics COMMENTS : One of the only books to examine the role of supervision in non-discriminatory counselling practice. This is an excellent book, which offers much food for thought. The chapter on sexual orientation provides some original and useful ideas.
BiographyThe Stately Homo: a Celebration of the Life of Quentin Crisp
Paperback 281 pages (1 October, 2001) Black Swan ISBN: 055299927X
HealthCore Magazine
Gay Men's Health CLICK HERE to view online Men Like Us: the GMHC Complete Guide to Gay Men's Sexual, Physical, and Emotional Well-being 
Paperback - 629 pages (May 2000) Ballantine ISBN: 0345414950 The Ins and Outs of Gay Sex 
Paperback - 276 pages (1 June, 1999) Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group ISBN: 0440508460 The Joy of Gay Sex: Fully Revised and Expanded Third Edition 
Hardcover - 336 pages (1 May, 2003) HarperResource ISBN: 0060012730 Ten Smart Things Gay Men Can Do to Improve Their Lives 
Alyson Publications August 2003 ISBN: 1555837824
LGBT historyQueer Street
320 pages (12 June, 1997) HarperCollins ISBN: 0002555956 Who's Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to World War II 
Paperback (1 December, 2000) Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd ISBN: 0415253691 The Pink Triangle CLICK HERE TO BUYPaperback - 257 pages (1 January, 1996) Henry Holt & Company ISBN: 0805006001 Gay 100 
Paperback - 386 pages (September 1998) Citadel Press ISBN: 0806517832 Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969 
Paperback - 448 pages (1 November, 2002) Penguin Books ISBN: 0142001147 How to Do the History of Homosexuality 
Hardcover - 216 pages (8 October, 2002) University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226314472 Who Was That Man?: A Present for Mr. Oscar Wilde (Masks) 
Paperback - 276 pages (September 1989) Serpent's Tail ISBN: 1852421231 Oscar and Bosie: a Fatal Passion 
Hardcover - 278 pages (21 March, 2002) Sutton Publishing ISBN: 0750924594 Outlines : Federico Garcia Lorca 
Paperback - 136 pages (April 1999) Absolute Press ISBN: 1899791612 The Isherwood Century: Essays on the Life and Work of Christopher Isherwood 
Hardcover - 296 pages (1 July, 2000) University of Wisconsin Press ISBN: 0299167003 The Men with the Pink Triangle CLICK HERE TO BUYPaperback - 128 pages (August 1997) Heretic Books ISBN: 0854492704 Third Sex, Third Gender: Beyond Sexual Dimorphism in Culture and History 
Paperback - 614 pages (1 June, 1996) Zone Books ISBN: 0942299825 Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford 
Paperback - 192 pages (1996) Cornell University Press ISBN: 0801481708 Proust's Cup of Tea: Homoeroticism and Victorian Culture (Studies
in European Cultural Transition) Hardcover - 231 pages (19 July, 2002) Ashgate Publishing Limited ISBN: 0754605183 Widescreen Dreams: Growing Up Gay at the Movies (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies) 
Paperback - 250 pages (August 2001) University of Wisconsin Press ISBN: 0299161641 The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and Theatre (Gender in Performance) 
Paperback - 560 pages (1 July, 2000) Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd ISBN: 0415159865 Un/Popular Culture: Lesbian Writing After the Sex Wars (SUNY Series,Identities in the Classroom) 
Paperback - 256 pages (1 March, 1997) State Univ.New York P. ISBN: 0791432904 Damned Women 
Paperback - 270 pages (December 2000) McGill-Queen's University Press ISBN: 0773521100 A Natural History of Homosexuality 
Print on Demand (Paperback) - 252 pages (January 1997) The Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN: 0801854407 Sodometries: Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualities 
Paperback - 313 pages (1 November, 1992) Stanford University Press ISBN: 0804720517 The Rise of a Gay and Lesbian Movement (Twayne's Social Movements Past and Present Series) CLICK HERE TO BUYPaperback - 250 pages (1 July, 1997) Twayne Publishers ISBN: 0805738649 Queering the Middle Ages 
Paperback - 318 pages (11 June, 2001) University of Minnesota Press ISBN: 0816634041 Framed: Lesbians, Feminists, and Media Culture 
Paperback - 224 pages (1 November, 2000) University of Minnesota Press ISBN: 0816634572
HumourYou Know You're Gay When...
Hardcover 105 pages (1 October, 1995) Contemporary Books Inc ISBN: 0809233207
FictionTipping the Velvet (A Virago V) 
Paperback - 472 pages (4 March, 1999) Virago Press ISBN: 1860495249 The Well of Loneliness (Virago Modern Classics) 
Paperback - 458 pages (29 April, 1982) Virago Press ISBN: 0860682544 Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story 
Paperback - 288 pages (19 May, 1994) Abacus ISBN: 0349105499
A Boy's Own Story 
Paperback - 240 pages (14 March, 1986) Picador ISBN: 0330281518 The Lost Language of Cranes 
Paperback - 353 pages (2 March, 1998) Houghton Mifflin (Trade) ISBN: 0395877334 Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 
Paperback - 192 pages (5 September, 1991) Vintage ISBN: 0099935708 The Farewell Symphony 
Paperback - 400 pages (28 May, 1998) Vintage ISBN: 0099768011
PlaysCat on a Hot Tin Roof
Paperback 336 pages (29 November, 2001) Penguin Books ISBN: 0141184353 Edward II 
Paperback 160 pages (30 October, 1998) Nick Hern Books ISBN: 1854594109 The Killing of Sister George Paperback 84 pages (1965) Samuel French ISBN: 0573030170 Angels in America
Paperback 304 pages (1 November, 2003) Theatre Communications Group ISBN: 1559362316
PsychologyLesbian and Gay Psychology: New Perspectives
Straight Science?: Homosexuality, Evolution and Adaption
Paperback 232 pages (14 August, 1997) Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd ISBN: 0415157730
SociologyTelling Sexual Stories: Power, Change and Social Worlds
Paperback 256 pages (8 December, 1994) Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd ISBN: 0415102960
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