Victoria Clarke & Elizabeth Peel 
Out in Psychology [PDF ebook] 
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer Perspectives

List of Contributors.
Foreword by Jerry J. Bigner.
1. Introducing Out in Psychology (Victoria Clarke and Elizabeth
Peel).
2. From lesbian and gay psychology to LGBTQ psychologies: A
journey into the unknown (Victoria Clarke and Elizabeth Peel)
3. What comes after discourse analysis for LGBTQ
psychology(Peter Hegarty).
4. Recognising race in LGBTQ psychology: Power, privilege and
complicity (Damien W. Riggs).
5. Personality, individual differences and LGB psychology
(Gareth Hagger Johnson).
6. Heteronormativity and the exclusion of bisexuality in
psychology (Meg Barker).
7. A minority within a minority: Experiences of gay men with
intellectual disabilities.(Christopher Bennett and Adrian
Coyle).
8. Closet talk: The contemporary relevance of the closet in
lesbian and gay interaction (Victoria Land and Celia Kitzinger)
9. Romance, rights, recognition, responsibilities and
radicalism: Same-sex couples’ accounts of civil partnership
and marriage (Victoria Clarke, Carole Burgoyne and Maree
Burns).
10. The experience of social power in the lives of trans people
(Clair Clifford and Jim Orford).
11. What do they look like and are they among us? Bisexuality,
(dis.closure and (Maria Gurevich, Jo Bower, Cynthia M. Mathieson
and Bramilee Dhayanandhan).
12. Heterosexism at work: Diversity training, discrimination law
and the limits of liberal individualism (Rosie Harding and
Elizabeth Peel).
13. Out on the ball fields: Lesbians in sport (Vikki Krane and
Kerrie J. Kauer).
14. Homophobia, rights and community: Contemporary issues in the
lives of LGB people in the UK (Sonja J. Ellis).
15. Striving for holistic success: How lesbians come out on top
(Faith Rostad and Bonita C. Long).
16. On Passing: The Interactional Organization of Appearance
Attributions in the Psychiatric Assessment of Transsexual Patients
(Susan A. Speer and Richard Green).
17. Alcohol and gay men: Consumption, promotion and policy
responses (Jeffrey Adams, Timothy Mc Creanor and Virginia
Braun).
18. Towards a clinical-psychological approach to address the
hetero sexual concerns of intersexed women (Lih-Mei Liao).
19. Educational psychology practice with LGB youth in schools:
Individual and institutional interventions (Jeremy J. Monsen and
Sydney Bailey).
20. Que(e)rying the meaning of lesbian health: Individual(izing
and community discourses (Sara Mac Bride-Stewart).
21. Transsexualism: Diagnostic dilemmas, transgender politics
and the future of transgender care (Katherine Johnson).
Index.

Victoria Clarke is a senior lecturer in social psychology at
the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. She has
published a number of papers on lesbian and gay parenting, same-sex
relationships, the history of LGBTQ psychologies, and qualitative
methods in journals such as Sexualities, British Journal
of Social Psychology, Qualitative Research in Psychology
and Lesbian & Gay Psychology Review. She has edited
(with Sara-Jane Finlay and Sue Wilkinson) two special issues of
Feminism & Psychology on marriage, and edited (with
Elizabeth Peel) special issues of Feminism & Psychology,
Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy, Lesbian &
Gay Psychology Review and Psychology of Women Section
Review on LGBTQ psychologies. She is also the editor with
Elizabeth Peel and Jack Drescher of British LGB Psychologies:
Theory, research and practice (Haworth Press, 2007). She is a
member of the British Psychological Society’s Lesbian &
Gay Psychology Section and Qualitative Methods in Psychology
Section. She is an editorial board member of the Journal of Gay
& Lesbian Psychotherapy and Feminism &
Psychology. Her current research and writing centres on
same-sex relational practices and civil partnership, LGBTQ issues
in higher education, and the use of thematic analysis in
qualitative psychological research. She is co-authoring a textbook
(with Sonja J. Ellis, Elizabeth Peel and Damien W. Riggs) entitled
LGBTQ Psychologies: Themes and perspectives (Cambridge
University Press).
Elizabeth Peel is a lecturer in psychology in the School
of Life & Health Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, UK.
She has published a number of articles about heterosexism,
diversity training and lesbian and gay relationships in journals
such as Discourse & Society, Feminism &
Psychology, Lesbian & Gay Psychology Review and
Women’s Studies International Forum. She is the editor
with Victoria Clarke and Jack Drescher of British LGB
Psychologies: Theory, research and practice (Haworth Press,
2007). She has also edited (with Victoria Clarke) special issues of
Feminism & Psychology, Journal of Gay & Lesbian
Psychotherapy, Lesbian & Gay Psychology Review and
Psychology of Women Section Review on LGBTQ psychologies.
She is a chartered psychologist and a member of the British
Psychological Society’s Lesbian and Gay Psychology Section
and Qualitative Methods in Psychology Section. She is former editor
of Lesbian & Gay Psychology Review and editorial board
member of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy. Her
current research centres on the management of chronic illness
(especially diabetes), understandings of health related
technologies (such as neuroimaging techniques), same sex
relationships and the intersections of LGBTQ psychologies and
critical health psychology. She is currently editing (with Michael
Thomson) a special issue of Feminism & Psychology on
LGBTQ health psychologies and is co-authoring a textbook (with
Victoria Clarke, Sonja J. Ellis and Damien W. Riggs) entitled
LGBTQ Psychologies: Themes and perspectives (Cambridge
University Press).