PTSD Symptoms of Sexual Abuse and Covert Cultural Sexual Abuse (123K) - Growing up lesbian & gay can be traumatic. Keeping inside the emotional and sexual feelings related to one's identity and have no place to express them can contribute to similar effects of sexual abuse. This chart illustrates this calling it Covert Cultural Sexual Abuse (CCSA)

Characteristics of Sexual Anorexia and Growing Up Gay or Lesbian (122K) - This chart illustrates the similarities between growing up conditioned to be sexually averse to your own sexuality and growing up lesbian and gay.

Detroit Jewish News Review June 2008 (775K) - Book review of Gay Affirmative Therapy for the Straight Clinician

Gay Affirmative Therapy Book Review by Dr. Martin Kantor (2MB) - Book review of Gay Affirmative Therapy for the Straight Clinician: The Essential Guide for Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health by Dr. Martin Kantor

Gay Affirmative Therapy Pridesource (630K) - Review of Gay Affirmative Therapy for the Straight Clinician

Gay Affirmative Therapy review in Therapy Today November 08 (736K) - Kort’s interesting concept is that lesbian and gay people suffer not only from internalised homophobia, but
actually from posttraumatic stress disorder rooted in their upbringing of ‘covert cultural sexual abuse’ and family disapproval.

Helping Couples Get The Love They Want (181K) - Maya Kollman's article on lesbian couple and Imago Relationship Therapy