Table of Contents:
  • 1: Biopsychosocial research and male homosexuality
  • Introductory concepts
  • Psychobiological considerations
  • Gender identity and male homosexuality
  • Freud's Three essays revisited
  • The role of the family in the etiology of homosexuality
  • 2: Psychopathology and sexual orientation in males
  • Character pathology and sexual orientation: introductory concepts
  • Homosexuality-heterosexuality and obsessional character disorders: character neuroses
  • Homosexuality-heterosexuality and obsessional character discorders: character neuroses
  • Homosexuality-heterosexuality and obsessional disorders: borderline syndromes
  • Bisexuality, obsessional character neurosis, and borderline syndromes
  • Masochism and sexual orientation
  • Homosexuality and paranoid psychopathology
  • Psychopathology and sexual orientation: further reflections
  • 3: Developmental considerations
  • Childhood
  • Adolescence
  • 4: Theoretical issues and conclusion
  • Gender identify and the sense of masculinity
  • Male sexual fantasy differentiation
  • Sexual fantasy, ego, and self
  • Hierarchy and sexual orientation
  • Conclusion: psychoanalysis, science, and homosexuality.