The LGBT Casebook

This timely and sensible book seems to me to be a model of what a casebook should be. It is clear without being simple. It is relatively brief. It embodies good listening to patients. It is scientifically up-to-date and well written and edited. It provides reasonably detailed and thoughtful examples across a solid group of major psychiatric diagnoses as well as across a few psychiatric and social categories other than diagnoses and examples of integrated, educated, and helpful biopsychosocial consideration and treatment of people. I recommend this book to all psychiatrists, young and old, and to our mental health colleagues and students, particularly, but not limited to, those who are actively or might potentially work with LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) patients or clients. -- Lawrence Hartmann, M.D. * The American Journal of Psychiatry * With this casebook, psychiatry finally finds itself walking toward to meet and understand the LGBT experience. The editors do a wonderful job of covering this rapidly changing cultural topography, ranging from more recent changes, such as the repeal of "don't ask don't tell," to the ongoing national debate concerning marriage equality, with its resulting legal uncertainties. Drs. Levounis, Drescher, and Barber cover the significant ground yet to be gained and address how this affects our clients and their families. As such, this book is a needed addition to help therapists deal with LGBT-related issues. -- Genevieve Yancey, M.D. * The American Journal of Psychiatry * The variety and detail of the cases provide a living palette of LGBT experiences, one that offers a practical guide for the clinician rather than merely offering a theoretical framework for interaction with LGBT patients This volume should have broad appeal for all health care professionals given that it is difficult to imagine a clinician who will not at some point have LGBT patients or patients whose lives are touched by LGBT individuals. It should be required reading for trainees such as psychiatric residents. -- James Krajeski, M.D., M.P.A. * Journal of Psychiatric Practice March 2013 *

Petros Levounis, M.D., M.A., is Director of the Addiction Institute of New York; Associate Chair for Clinical Services in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, and Chief of the Division of Addiction Psychiatry at St. Luke's and Roosevelt Hospitals; and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, NY. Jack Drescher, M.D., is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at New York Medical College, and Training and Supervising Analyst at the William A. White Institute in New York, NY. Mary E. Barber, M.D., is Clinical Director of Rockland Psychiatric Center and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, NY.

Contributors Foreword Preface PART I: Basic Principles Chapter 1. What's in Your Closet? Chapter 2. Coming Out to Self and Others Chapter 3. From Outlaws to In-Laws Chapter 4. LGBT Parenting Chapter 5. Sexual Identity in Patient-Therapist Relationships PART II: Case Studies Chapter 6. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Chapter 7. Substance Dependence Chapter 8. Schizophrenia Chapter 9. Major Depressive Disorder Chapter 10. Dysthymic Disorder Chapter 11. Bipolar Disorder Chapter 12. Panic Disorder Chapter 13. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Chapter 14. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Chapter 15. Generalized Anxiety Disorder Chapter 16. Adjustment Disorder Chapter 17. Borderline Personality Disorder Chapter 18. Parent-Child Relational Problem Chapter 19. Partner Relational Problem Chapter 20. Bereavement Chapter 21. Occupational Problem Chapter 22. Identity Problem Chapter 23. Religious or Spiritual Problem Chapter 24. Acculturation Problem Chapter 25. Phase of Life Problem Glossary Index