Coming Out of Shame: Transforming Gay and Lesbian Lives
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (894 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0385477961 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Gershen Kaufman and Lev Raphael expose the role shame has come to play in the lives of gay men and lesbians. The authors break the silence surrounding gay and lesbian experience so that individuals can "come out" of shame and begin a path toward personal growth and acceptance.
A difficult read I found this book to be obtuse and difficult to read. I'm glad others got more out of it. There are probably better ones out there.. A Customer said A must read for anyone coming out of the closet. I read this book before giving it to a friend who was coming out because I wanted to make sure it took a position that was sufficiently pro-gay. Coming out is tough and I didn't want to give him a book that would make it any tougher. Not only was it positive enough to give him, but he thought it was one of the most helpful coming out books he read.What I didn't expect is that the book spoke to me as a heterosexual . A Customer said Essential Reading. I'm not eloquent enough to tell you about why this book is so good or how it helped me so much, but I do want people who are reading the customer reviews for this book to know that this book made a HUGE and POSITIVE impact on my life--it really helped me combat my inner turmoil over self-esteem and coming/being out. Coming out is one of the hardest things I think any human being has to do--and there are a lot of em
Martin's, 1992). From Library Journal Psychologist and psychotherapist Kaufman (Shame: The Power of Caring, Shenckman, 1981) has been publishing on shame for two decades; Raphael, his life partner of ten years, is best known for his fiction (Winter Eyes, St. The technical terminology somewhat obscures the many insights in this book clearly intended for the sophisticated layperson. The use of humor and examples from case studies help mitigate the text's redundancy. For public collections strong on gay issues.?James E. . Maintaining that the self is continuously evolving, the authors offer "reparenting" imagery to transform scenes in an attempt to help make patterns of emotion more visible and thus diminish shame in individuals and relationships, as well as facilitate resolution of such issues as sexual monogamy. Together they present the main features of shame theory based on the work of Silvan Tomkins; they then move on to examine how internalized shame and fear imp