Specific approaches and techniques in the treatment of gay male alcohol abusers.
An extended discussion of specific therapeutic approaches and techniques with homosexual male alcohol abusers, including dealing with low self-esteem, sober sex, getting high, getting "far out" sexually, double lives, second rate relationships, social bonding, and aging. In this paper, the bias of treatment approaches is toward individualized, interpersonal, holistic eclecticism: a combination of responsibility building therapy, awareness therapy, medical and neurophysiological approaches, strategic therapy, utilization of altered states of consciousness, and attitudinal change therapy.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001828:Body Image; D003192:Compulsive Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D003243:Consciousness; D005201:Fantasy; D006716:Homosexuality; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009769:Object Attachment; D012649:Self Concept; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D013240:Stereotyping