Positioning Identities
Lesbians' and Gays' Experiences with Mental Health Care
Seiten
2006
Left Coast Press Inc (Verlag)
978-1-59874-292-3 (ISBN)
Left Coast Press Inc (Verlag)
978-1-59874-292-3 (ISBN)
Provides results of a landmark qualitative study of how lesbians and gays negotiate their sexual identities in mental health care contexts and manage institutional homophobia and heterosexism.
How do lesbians and gays negotiate their sexual identities in mental health care contexts? How do they manage the institutional homophobia and heterosexism embedded in health care practice and practitioners? Using interpretive phenomenology, Hazel Platzer overturns limiting dualisms to describe the ways in which lesbians and gays are silenced and pathologized in their mental health care encounters, how they resist, and how their resistance can restrict access to care. She highlights the difficulties of researching a sensitive topic with a relatively “hidden” population, and devises innovative techniques for handling bias and a multi-methods approach to the phenomenological study of experience and identities. She then offers proactive steps toward creating a health care environment in which lesbian and gay identities are normalized, improving both access to and quality of health care.
How do lesbians and gays negotiate their sexual identities in mental health care contexts? How do they manage the institutional homophobia and heterosexism embedded in health care practice and practitioners? Using interpretive phenomenology, Hazel Platzer overturns limiting dualisms to describe the ways in which lesbians and gays are silenced and pathologized in their mental health care encounters, how they resist, and how their resistance can restrict access to care. She highlights the difficulties of researching a sensitive topic with a relatively “hidden” population, and devises innovative techniques for handling bias and a multi-methods approach to the phenomenological study of experience and identities. She then offers proactive steps toward creating a health care environment in which lesbian and gay identities are normalized, improving both access to and quality of health care.
Hazel K. Platzer is a research fellow in the Health and Social Policy Research Centre, University of Brighton, UK.
Acknowledgements, Preface, 1 Disordered Identities, 2 The Persistence of the Pathologization of Lesbian and Gay Sexual Identities, 3 On Not Grasping the Nettle, 4 The Research That Cannot Speak Its Name, 5 Identity Parade: Experiences in the Line-Up for Mental Health Care, 6 Mistaken Identities through a Phenomenological Lens, 7 A Discursive Analysis of Resistance to Mistaken Identities, 8 Disintegrating the Dualisms and Reintegrating Identities, 9 Negotiating Sexual Identities, References, Index
| Reihe/Serie | International Institute for Qualitative Methodology Series |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Walnut Creek |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 282 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-59874-292-2 / 1598742922 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-59874-292-3 / 9781598742923 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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