Comg Out of Shame: Transformg Gay and Lbian Liv: Kfman Ph.D., Gershon, Raphael Ph.D., Lev: 9780385477963: Books

Contents:

• COMG OUT OF SHAME: TRANSFORMG GAY AND LBIAN LIV PAPERBACK – DECEMBER 1, 1996
• COMG OUT OF SHAME: TRANSFORMG GAY AND LBIAN LIV
• COMG OUT OF SHAME: TRANSFORMG GAY AND LBIAN LIV CAPA UM – 27 ZEMBRO 1996
• COMG OUT OF SHAME : TRANSFORMG GAY AND LBIAN LIV
• COMG OUT OF SHAME: TRANSFORMG GAY AND LBIAN LIV PAPERBACK – 1 DECEMBER 1996

COMG OUT OF SHAME: TRANSFORMG GAY AND LBIAN LIV PAPERBACK – DECEMBER 1, 1996

Every Kid's Gui to Personal Power and Posive Self-Esteem, Third Edn (Free Spir Publishg, 2019); A Teacher's Gui to Stick Up For Yourself, Third Edn (Free Spir Publishg, 2019); Comg Out of Shame: Transformg Gay and Lbian Liv (Doubleday, 1996); and Dynamics of Power: Fightg Shame and Buildg Self-Esteem, Send Edn (Schenkman Books, 1991). We'll be explorg what 's like for men growg up gay and women growg up lbian ntemporary society. We'll exame how experienc of shame n bee embedd our emergg awarens as lbians and gay men, and thereby shape our eventual lbian or gay inty.

Examg the lbian/gay experience evably brgs face to face wh shame bee that experience has been exorably fed wh shame across cultur and centuri.

In orr to fully prehend the nature of the ntemporary lbian/gay experience, we mt nont the problem of shame while also furtherg the task of enlargg lbian/gay nscns.

COMG OUT OF SHAME: TRANSFORMG GAY AND LBIAN LIV

What do we mean by a lbian nscns or a gay awarens? What is a gay inty or a lbian inty?

COMG OUT OF SHAME: TRANSFORMG GAY AND LBIAN LIV CAPA UM – 27 ZEMBRO 1996

How do a lbian or gay inty velop? How is self-teem fluenced by the timate knowledge of beg gay or lbian?

The are the central qutns we'll be examg as we nsir gay life for both women and men. If we are to effect substantive, lastg change the personal liv of gay people, then we mt beg wh a searchg quiry to shame that expands our knowledge of this misunrstood human emotn. Shame is equally central to the velopment of inty for all people, gay and non-gay alike.

COMG OUT OF SHAME : TRANSFORMG GAY AND LBIAN LIV

Developg self-teem and a secure, self-affirmg gay inty, along wh tegratg timacy and sexualy, are central velopmental tasks for gay dividuals. Comg Out of Shame: Transformg Gay and Lbian Liv Capa um – 27 zembro 1996. Most gay men and lbians grow up learng that to be gay is to be sick, to be unnatural, to be a sner.

By adolcence, such negative attus have produced and rerced a sgle, powerful emotn: shame, the feelg that you’re ferr and judged as “bad, ” for what you are—gay. In Comg out of Shame Gershen Kfman and Lev Raphael expose the role shame has e to play gay and lbian liv.

COMG OUT OF SHAME: TRANSFORMG GAY AND LBIAN LIV PAPERBACK – 1 DECEMBER 1996

Rarely discsed but vastly important, shame powerfully shap each dividual’s velopment of self-teem, inty, and timacy—three areas which gay men and lbians have been extremely vulnerable to the cripplg effects of shame. Tracg the historil and cultural sourc of gay shame, Kfman and Raphael reveal how gay men and lbians have ternalized shame, rultg self-loathg and stctive behavrs.

The hallmark of shame is silence, and by breakg the silence around the dynamics of gay shame, Kfman and Raphael offer a way to “e out” of shame and beg the journey toward wholens and self-acceptance.

Filled wh the experienc of those stgglg to overe shame, Comg Out of Shame clus strategi for:• Storg self-teem• Creatg a posive gay inty• Healg scen of shame• Developg partnerships timacy Self-affirmg and spiratnal, Comg Out of Shame guis the transformatn of gay shame to gay pri and empowers gay men and lbians as no other book has done. Comg out of shame: transformg gay and lb...