LGBT

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgendered (LGBT)



Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgendered (LGBT)

Introduction

In the past few decades, gays, lesbians and transgender have become a topic that increasingly discussed and debated among social theorists. Indeed, sex and desire have become the focus of intense social-theoretical, philosophical and feminist fascination, and it is against this backcloth that social theorists have sought to rethink the constitution and reproduction of sexualities, bodies, pleasures, desires, impulses, sensations and affects. How to think sexuality beyond the constraints of culture is a question that is increasingly crucial to the possibilities of political radicalism today. The cultural prompting for this turn towards sexuality in social theory is not too difficult to discern. In the aftermath of the sexual revolution of the 1960s, and particularly because of the rise of feminism, sexuality has come to be treated as infusing broad-ranging changes taking place in personal and social life. The politics of identity, sexual diversity, postmodern feminism or post-feminism, gay and lesbian identities, the crisis of personal relationships and family life, AIDS, sexual ethics and responsibilities of care, respect and love: these are core aspects of our contemporary sexual dilemmas (Williams, 2003). In this paper we will be discussing the critical problems that therapist face during counseling of LGBT.

Counseling of LGBT

Psychological view of homosexuality held many stages; much has been revised, added. But, despite this, still many professionals who are trying to "cure" homosexuality, considering it a disease. It was conducted "verification" telephone hotline in Novosibirsk, where the phone was trying to impress a consultant to the subscriber that homosexuality is pathological. The fact that there are differences between experts, who can be trusted to be safe, no doubt, but often most of them are deficient in psychological and psychotherapeutic education that promotes passive assistance to people of homosexual orientation in an attempt to confront the prejudices of traditional culture.

Few of them know that there is a gay-affirmative psychotherapy. However, there is a real inversion of gays and lesbians. Therefore, in the environment there is a problem of competent professionals use in their work adequate for sexual minorities' methods. Competent and loyal enough in relation to gay and lesbian therapist never get down to "cure" LGBT, but may help to overcome social homophobia and auto aggression. In connection with this, it is very difficult to avoid the subjectivity of the expert. Not only did this or that direction in psychotherapy is a personal choice expert, but just as meaningful is and how it relates to various non-traditional sexual manifestations on a personal level. This is really important, because the effect on the overall process and the outcome of psychotherapy. They have said enough of those terrible experiments by a change of orientation, which is known for psychotherapy.

But the problems are obvious that they are varied and are not unconventional, but rather a pretty human, and not at all alien to people in general, regardless of orientation, color or national origin. The main goal of psychotherapy is to help the client to ...