II. Bisexuality: Working with a Silenced Sexuality

Troubles with bisexuality in health and social care

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The Concept of Bisexuality and Psychiatry1

INTRODUCTION On the occasion of the Silver Jubi lee Celebration of the N I M H A N S , this meeting together of neurologists, clinical psychologists, sociologists and psychiatrists is of significance. Although technically belonging to different disciplines, we all investigate the same subject, man . We all arc acutely aware of the complexities involved in the scientific t reatment of this subje...

Bisexuality in Psychoanalytic Theory: Interpreting the Resistance

A comment on cultural attributes and fluidity of bisexuality.

Selected aspects of the "essentialist" critiques and reviews in Bisexual and Homosexual Identities: Critical Theoretical Issues (De Cecco & Shively, eds., 1983/1984) of the idea of the bisexual identity are examined from the standpoint of their cross-cultural significance. Examples from recent studies in Melanesia are used to highlight possible areas of exploration for future research in homose...

Silenced Suffering

This paper examines the ways in which Palestinian suffering from the 1948 Nakba and the ‘ongoing Nakba’ has been silenced. Silencing has taken multiple forms in different historical moments, from the description of Palestinians as ‘non-Jews’ in the Balfour Declaration, to under-reporting of Palestinian losses in 1948, to exclusion from academic studies of trauma and genocide, to the absence of ...