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Zusatztext
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"I'm like a whirling leaf in the wind," said one of Dr. Lena Nilsson SchOnnesson' s patients, and another "I'm in the claws of HIV." Their voices and those of other HIV-positive patients frame the humanistic and scholarly discussion in this impor tant book. Dr. SchOnnesson, a Fulbright scholar at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, Columbia University in 1995, has unusually extensive clinical experience in counseling HIV-positive gay men. Her work with 38 such patients treated between 1986 and 1995 is discussed in the pages that follow. Dr. SchOnnesson's longitudinal approach to clinical data is extremely unusual in the psychotherapy literature generally, and in the literature on counseling HIV positive men in particular. Building upon the experience of such recent scholar clinicians as Klitzman, Isay, Schaffner, and others, Dr. SchOnnesson adds some thing unique by analyzing her ongoing detailed notes of the psychotherapeutic process in a systematic quantitative as well as qualitative manner. The analysis of her data is further informed by her coauthor, Dr. Michael Ross, a therapist and investigator whose contribution to the clinical and research literature on the psychotherapeutic treatment of gay men has already been substantial.
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Kurztext
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A study of how gay men adjust to and cope with HIV disease. This book examines the adjustment and existential issues which arise over the stages of the illness. It focuses on HIV-related psychological, social, and sexual issues and their impact on psychological functioning and quality of life.
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Detailansicht
Coping with HIV Infection
Psychological and Existential Responses in Gay Men, Aids Prevention and Mental Health
ISBN/EAN: 9780306462207
Umbreit-Nr.: 1572652
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xviii, 188 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 31.08.1999