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By Richard A. Isay. 210 pp. New York, Pantheon, 1996. $23. ISBN 0-679-42159-9.

Richard Isay has made a career of the struggle to make psychoanalysis safe, available, and effective as a treatment for gay men. In his first book on the subject, Being Homosexual: Gay Men and Their Development (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989), he expounded a model for the formation of homosexual identity that remained true to his training in classical psychoanalysis while challenging the view of American psychoanalysis that homosexuality is a sexual perversion. His new work, Becoming Gay: The Journey to Self-Acceptance, brings the argument about whether gay men are mentally healthy or sexually deviant out of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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