Product Description: The goal of psychotherapy as formulated in this revision of a classic text is to improve ego function of severely disturbed patients who are often hospitalized. This book shows why and how. It describes the psychotherapeutic techniques that aid patients to understand the meaning of the psychotic symbols so that they can experience reality and their emotions as separate entities...read more

Product Description: Kids have questions about gay people, whether those questions concern a friend, a beloved aunt or uncle, or themselves. But there are exceedingly few places children and teenagers can go to find the age-appropriate information they need and few people they can turn to for the honest, straightforward answers they deserve...read more

An updated and revised informative, accessible guide to understanding and approaching the issue of sexual orientation.No question goes unanswered in this important book about being gay. All the basics—and not-so-basics—are covered in more than one hundred questions asked by real teens. Whether you’re curious about your own sexual orientation or looking to understand and support someone close to you, this book contains an abundance of answers. Primarily targeted at young adults, this indispensible guide also includes a chapter especially for parents as well as an appendix packed with additional resources. Expert Eric Marcus has fully updated and revised this essential guide for today’s readers. He candidly and clearly pushes aside the myths and misinformation about being gay and lesbian, answering all the questions that are on your mind.

Product Description: We explain what people think and do by citing their reasons, but how do such explanations work, and what do they tell us about the nature of reality? Contemporary efforts to address these questions are often motivated by the worry that our ordinary conception of rationality contains a kernel of supernaturalism―a ghostly presence that meditates on sensory messages and orchestrates behavior on the basis of its ethereal calculations...read more

Product Description: In our lifetimes 85 percent of us will have some up-close experience with the suicide of someone we know.  And more than 20 percent of us will have a family member die by suicide.  Journalist Eric Marcus knows this better than most people...read more

Product Description: Designed specifically for medical students, as well as other trainees in the health professions, including social workers, occupational therapists, and psychiatric residents, Psychiatry 2e is a dynamic introductory textbook in psychiatry...read more

Covers gay life, history, and culture

Offers answers to questions young readers might ask about gay people, whether those questions concern a friend, a family member, or themselves. (view table of contents)

This handy book provides the right words of irreverent inspiration to help readers laugh at all its nasty surprises. Inspired by the author's profoundly pessimistic late grandmother Ethel, 'Pessimisms' offers witty and thoughtful observations on family, faith, men, love, life and health from politics, literature, the press, film, music and more.

A revised edition addresses numerous questions commonly asked about homosexuality, from understanding the dynamics of same-gender relationships and the ramifications of today's politics on the gay community to the role of family in a gay person's life and the Bible's stance on homosexuality. Original.

Product Description: Bad things happen to everyone, and Pessimisms provides just the right words of irreverent inspiration to help you laugh at life and all of its nasty surprises. Inspired by the author's profoundly pessimistic late Grandma Ethel, Pessimisms offers wickedly witty observations, quotations, thoughts, and ruminations on: FAMILY "Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city...read more

An updated edition of the award-winning, personal account of the fifty-year struggle for gay and lesbian rights recalls the struggle through the eyes of more than sixty participants. By the author of The Male Couple's Guide. Reprint. (view table of contents)

A Spanish language edition of a classic resource on all facets of homosexuality contains answers to three hundred questions about the gay lifestyle and its historical and societal ramifications, offering an honest and down-to-earth perspective on a variety of topics. (Social Science) (view table of contents)

A portrait of forty homosexual couples, men and women from a variety of economic backgrounds, who have been together for as many as fifty years examines how they have built happy, fulfilling lives together despite the odds against them. Reprint.

A revised edition of a resource on all facets of homosexuality contains answers to three hundred questions about the gay lifestyle and its historical and societal ramifications, offering an honest and down-to-earth perspective on a variety of topics. Reprint.

A thoroughly updated and revised classic resource for gay men gives modern advice on finding a partner, creating commitment ceremonies, coping with families, and more, offering a personal and practical tone and many anecdotes. Original.

A portrait of forty homosexual couples, men and women from a variety of economic backgrounds, who have been together for as many as fifty years examines how they have built happy, fulfilling lives together despite the odds against them. Tour. (view table of contents)

The renowned gay figure skater describes how he overcome such painful times as the deaths of his loved ones and his struggle with drugs and alcohol while presenting his experience with the universal determination to never quit. Reprint.

Product Description: The first comprehensive look at gay marriage from the ground up. Marcus met & spoke with 40 deeply committed, happy gay & lesbian couples who have been together between 9 & 50 years. He takes into the lives of the remarkable & remarkably ordinary people he's met...read more

An illustrated, wide-ranging compendium of information about all aspects of gay and lesbian life, history, and culture includes a glossary of gay concepts, a survey of the gay rights movement, reviews of gay movies, and more. National ad/promo.

A nonjudgemental guide for people whose lives have been touched by suicide offers practical answers to such related concerns as what to tell others, insurance coverage, preventability, and what to do with suicidal feelings. Original.

Product Description: This volume takes the mystery out of gay & lesbian history, lifts the lid off pink politics, & paints the town lavender with hundreds of lively articles & intriguing facts covering every aspect of gay life, culture, & community. From debunking myths to creating family, from fighting for rights to battling AIDS, from showbiz superstars to military heroes, dozens of notable contributors come out in all directions -- providing both a useful guide to issues & resources & an entertaining & informative mirror of the American lesbian & gay experience...read more

A personal account of the forty-five-year struggle for gay and lesbian rights recalls the struggle through the eyes of more than fifty participants. By the author of The Male Couple's Guide to Living Together. Reprint. 17,500 first printing. NYT.

The author of Making History answers such questions as Is homosexuality a choice? How do you know if you are lesbian or gay? and What should you tell a child about a homosexual relative? Original. 30,000 first printing.