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Publications by IPG Staff

Sherill Cantrell-Brown, MA, LPC

  • Size Discrimination

Judith Clarke, LCSW

  • Love Is The Path To Healing
  • Love Is The Path To Wholeness

James Fedor, Ph.D., LCSW

  • Family Issues for LGBT Older Adults, (2014). The Lives of LGBT Older Adults: Understanding Challenges and Resilience. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Laura A. Jacobs, LCSW

  • Gender Dysphoria and Co-Occuring Autism Spectrum Disorders: Review, Case Examples, and Treatment Considerations, Published in LGBT Health, Vol. 2, 2014.

Alison Grant, MSW, LCSW

  • Introduction to A Girl Raised By Wolves, a memoir by Lockey Maisonneuve (not affiliated with IPG).

Michael LaSala, Ph.D, LCSW

  • Condoms and Connection: Parents, Gay and Bisexual Youth, and HIV Risk, Published in Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 2014, in press.
  • Extradyadic Sex and Gay Male Couples: Comparing Monogamous and Nonmonogamous Relationships, Published in Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services, Vol. 85 No. 3, 2004.
  • Monogamy of the Heart: Extradyadic Sex and Gay Male Couples, Published in Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services, Vol. 17 Issue 3, 2004.
  • The Importance of Partners To Lesbians’ Intergenerational Relationships, Published in Social Work Research, Vol. 25 Issue 1, 2001.
  • Lesbians, Gay Men, and Their Parents: Family Therapy for the Coming-Out Crisis, Published in Family Process, Vol. 39 Issue 1, 2000.

Susan Menahem, MSW, LCSW

  • CPR For Lesbian Bed Death
  • Intimacy: What’s Love Got To Do With It…?

Margaret Nichols, Ph.D

  • Transgender Youth, What you need to know about gender non-conforming and transgender youth.
  • Déjà vu:  Problems that Repeat in Relationships, How to change those patterns we all seem to repeat over and over again in our relationships.
  • When the Child Becomes the Parent to the Parent, Issues facing children and aging parents.
  • Turning up the Heat, How to make sex hot again in long-term relationships.
  • Reflections of a Queer Shrink, Observations on twenty years of counseling within the G/L/B/T community.
  • My Friend Rob, How a friend who died of AIDS transformed his life through his illness.
  • A TEDx talk by Dr. Margaret Nichols: Beyond the Gender Binary
  • Consensual Nonmonogamy: When Is It Right for Your Clients?, Published in Psychotherapy Networker, January/February 2018
  • The Great Escape: Welcome to the World of Gender Fluidity, Published in Psychotherapy Networker, March/April 2016
  • Sex Therapy with Clients who Practice Kink, Published in System Sex Therapy, Second Edition, edited by Katherine M. Hertlein, Gerald R. Weeks, and Nancy Gambescia, Routledge, New York, NY, 2015.
  • Sex Therapy with Lesbian and Gay Male Couples, Published in Handbook of Sex Therapy, edited by Zoë D. Peterson, Wiley-Blackwell, New York, NY, 2017.
  • Cuffed, Tied, and Satisfied: A Kinky Guide to the Best Sex Ever, Published in The Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, Vol. 41, Iss. 1, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, LLC., 2014.
  • Therapy with LGBTQ Clients:  Working with Sex and Gender Variance from a Queer Theory Model, Published in Principles and Practice of Sex Therapy, Fifth Edition, edited by Irwin Binik and Kathryn Hall, Guilford Press, 2014.
  • Same-Sex Sexuality from a Global Perspective, Published in The Cultural Context of Sexual Pleasure and Problems:  Psychotherapy With Diverse Clients, edited by Kathryn Hall and Cynthia Graham, Routledge Publishers, New York, NY, 2012.
  • Variations on Gender and Orientation in Scott’s First Interview, Published in The Initial Psychotherapy Interview:  A Gay Man Seeks Treatment, edited by Charles Silverstein, Elsevier Inc., New York, NY, 2011.
  • Couples and Kinky Sexuality:  The Need for a New Therapeutic Approach, Published in At the Edge:  Exploring Gender and Sexuality in Couples and Families, edited by A. Lev and J. Malpas, AFTA Monograph Series, 2011.
  • Book Review: The New Gay Teenager, Published in Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, LLC., 2010.
  • Dreger on the Bailey Controversy:  Lost in the Drama, Missing the Big Picture, Published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, Springer Science Publishers, 2008.
  • Therapy With Sexual Minorities:  Queering Practice, Published in Principles and Practice of Sex Therapy, Fourth Edition, edited by Sandra Leiblum, Guilford Press, 2007. Co-authored by Michael Shernoff.
  • Psychotherapeutic Issues With “Kinky” Clients:  Clinical Problems, Yours and Theirs, Published in Sadomasochism:  Powerful Pleasures, edited by Charles Moser, Ph.D., M.D. and Peggy J. Kleinplatz, Ph.D, Haworth Press, 2006.
  • Sexual Function in Lesbians and Lesbian Relationships, Published in Female Sexual Dysfunction, edited by I. Goldstein, C. M. Meston, S. Davis and M. Traish, Parthenon Publishing, 2005.
  • Leading Comment:  Rethinking Lesbian Bed Death, Published in Journal of the British Association for Sexual and Relationship Therapy, Vol. 19, No. 4, November 2004.
  • Psychology And BDSM:  Pathology Or Individual Difference?, Published in New Jersey Psychologist, 2002. Also published in the magazine Prometheus, Spring 2002.
  • Sex Therapy with Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered and “Kinky” Clients, Published in Principles and Practice of Sex Therapy, Third Edition, edited by Sandra Leiblum and Ray Rosen, Guilford Press, 2000.
  • Sexual Desire Disorder in Lesbian-Feminist Couple:  The Intersection of Therapy and Politics, Published in Case Studies in Sex Therapy, edited by Raymond C. Rosen and Sandra R. Leiblum, Guildford Press, 1995.
  • Therapy With Bisexual Women: Working On The Edge of Emerging Cultural and Personal Identities, Published in Women In Context, Toward a Feminist Reconstruction of Psychotherapy, edited by Marsha Pravder Mirkin, Guildford Press, 1994.
  • Lesbian Relationships:  Implications for the Study of Sexuality and Gender, Published in Homosexuality/Heterosexuality, edited by McWhirter, Sanders and Reinisch, Oxford University Press, 1990.
  • Women and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome:  Issues For Prevention, Published in AIDS and Sex: An Integrated Biomedical and Biobehavorial Approach, edited by Bruce Voeller, June Machover Reinisch, and Michael Gottlieb, Oxford University Press, 1990.
  • Bisexuality in Women:  Myths, Realities, and Implications for Therapy, Published in Women and Sex Therapy, Closing the Circle of Sexual Knowledge, edited by Ellen Cole, PhD and Esther D. Rothblum, PhD, Harrington Park Press, 1988.
  • Low Sexual Desire in Lesbian Couples, Published in Sexual Desire Disorders, edited by Sandra R. Leiblum and Raymond C. Rosen, The Guilford Press, 1988.
  • What Feminists Can Learn from the Lesbian Sex Radicals, Published in Conditions Press, Volume 14, pages 152-163, New York, NY, 1987.
  • Lesbian Sexuality:  Issues And Developing Theory and Doing Sex Therapy With Lesbians: Bending A Hetrosexual Paradigm To Fit a Gay Life-style, Published in Lesbian Psychologies: Explorations and Challenges, edited by The Boston Lesbian Psychologies Collective, University of Illinois Press, 1987.
  • The Most Underdiagnosed Sex Problems in Men and Women

Scott Taylor, MSW, LCSW

  • G. H. Mead’s Philosophical Hermeneutics of the Present
    Written by Scott Taylor, published in European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, Vol. 11 No. 2, 2019.
  • The Structure of Psychic Revolutions: A Psychoanalytic Account of Kuhnian Science
    Written by Scott Taylor, published in American Imago, Vol. 76 No. 3, 2019.

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