Coping with HIV Infection
Subtitle: Psychological and Existential Responses in Gay Men (Aids Prevention and Mental Health)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: August 31, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780306462207
Subjects: AIDS: social aspects; Clinical Psychology; Aids (Psychosocial Aspects); Homosexuality; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Psychology; AIDS & HIV; Administration; Medical / AIDS & HIV; Medical : Administration; Psychology & Psychiatry / Clinical Psychology; Gay Studies; AIDS (Disease); Counseling of; Gay men; Mental health; Patients; Psychological aspects
First sentence: Retrospectively, various diseases such as leprosy, the plague, and tuberculosis have evoked fear, disgust, repudiation, but also stigmatization of the afflicted person.
Description: "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.