title: Origins of homophobia in males. Psychosexual vulnerabilities and defense development.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To better understand the origins of homophobia among males.
  
  
  METHODS
  Literature review and clinical illustration.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Data suggest that there is a range of homophobic attitudes.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We illustrate how homophobic attitudes can be associated with a hierarchy of defensive styles. We propose that these defensive styles are used to manage a range of psychosexual developmental anxieties in boys and men.
authors.affiliation: Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Palo Alto, CA 94305, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lock
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kleis
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety; D001290:Attitude; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005239:Fear; D018451:Homosexuality, Male / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male