POSITIONING IDENTITIES: Lesbians' and gay men's experiences of mental
health care.
This book was published following the author receiving the International
Institute of Qualitative Methodology's annual international dissertation
award and can now be purchased through Amazon:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Positioning-Identities-Lesbians-Experiences-
Mental/dp/1598742922/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208507881&sr=8-2
SYNOPSIS:
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.
I would be most grateful if members of the network could order a copy for
their institutional library to help me fulfill my promsie to research
participants to disseminate the findings.
Hazel Platzer
www.hazelplatzer.com
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