Is Existential Psychotherapy a Lesbian and Gay Affirmative Psychotherapy?
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This paper reviews the lesbian and gay affirmative psychotherapy literature and that of existential psychotherapy in an effort to consider the question: is existential-phenomenological psychotherapy able to be lesbian and gay affirmative?
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