Books like A dialogue on love by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

A groundbreaking memoir that blends personal narrative with rigorous theory, charting Maggie Nelson’s queer romance, pregnancy, and the politics of love and family.

A powerful and poetic account of breast cancer survivor Audre Lorde's experience and transformation.

The Queer Art of Failure challenges conventional notions of success, knowledge, and culture, proposing a ‘low theory’ that embraces failure as a creative, subversive mode of thought.

Working from classic texts of European and American writers―including Melville, James, Nietzsche, Proust, and Wilde―Sedgwick analyzes a turn-of-the-century historical moment in which sexual orientation became as important a demarcation of personhood as gender had been for centuries. In her preface to this updated edition Sedgwick places the book both personally and historically, looking specifically at the horror of the first wave of the AIDS epidemic and its influence on the text.

Clearly and sensitively, this book explores the problem of sexual exploitation in counselling and therapy. Janice Russell addresses the issues surrounding this emotive subject, and offers models of practice designed to heighten counsellor and client awareness and contribute to the development of preventive strategies. The first part of the book discusses the different dimensions of sexually exploitative practice, overviewing contexts and concepts, and examining the effects of sexual exploitation on clients. The author focuses on practitioners in their particular setting, looking at sexuality and power and how these are relevant within the therapeutic process. Russell draws on her own research with clients, relating her analysis to clients' own accounts of their experiences of sexual exploitation. The second part of the book addresses the implications for actual practice. Russell discusses the ethical perspectives on the problem, and reviews and evaluates current codes of professional practice. She outlines the models she has developed for understanding and working with sexuality and sexual abuse in counselling and therapy and for supervision as a process concerned both with practitioner development and client safety. She also describes some of her own work in training. The book concludes with Russell's recommendations for further work in this area. Out of Bounds will be essential reading for trainee and practising therapists, counsellors, clinical psychologists, students of women's studies and all those in the helping professions offering therapeutic services to their clients.

Counselling for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Third Edition addresses the specifics of counselling clients who have suffered major trauma, whether recently or in the past, and includes 18 detailed case examples together with transcripts of sessions. The authors' cognitive contextual approach translates the psychobiology of trauma responses into clinically useful analogies and simple drawings that guide the therapist and client. The book is unique in covering the diagnosis and treatment of the full spectrum of post-traumatic states. In this fully updated Third Edition the needs of special pop.