#Teresa Theophano

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Headcase ed. Stephanie Schroeder; Teresa Theophano Headcase is a groundbreaking collection of personal reflections and artistic representations illustrating the intersection of mental wellness, illness, and LGBTQ identity, as well as the lasting impact of historical views equating queer and trans identity with mental illness. View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

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Headcase: LGBTQ Writers and Artists on Mental Health and Wellness, edited by Stephanie Schroeder and Teresa Theophano

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Before queerness was seen as an identity it was considered a disease, given entries in the DSM, and used as an excuse to detain and "cure" people of perceived deviance. Even after revisions to diagnostic practices, both past and present traumas contribute to high rates of PTSD, anxiety, depression, and other mental illnesses among LGBTQ populations. Thirty-seven artists, writers, poets, psychologists and more lend their voices to this collection, exploring their personal experiences with queerness and mental health, whether related to their identity or otherwise.

This collection wasn't bad, but I feel that it would have the most value to an ally who wants to understand and support queer people in their community, or perhaps a LGBTQ person who isn't very familiar with the history. Most of what it covered were things I already knew about, so my reading experience was more emotionally exhausting than illuminating. There were some pieces that were very interesting to me though, such as Fidelindo Lam's contrast of his identity as a gay man in the Philippines versus how we understand gay identity in the United States, as well as the stories that sought to share personal accounts as opposed to arguing why therapists should do this or that.

I was pleased by how diverse the contributors were. It's skewed towards the US and UK, but the collection features racial diversity as well as a full spectrum of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and non-binary individuals. It's also very accessible to people without a background in psychology(my own consists of a single 100-level course). A couple of the chapters get a bit dense, but I was able to follow the argument without needing google as a reference. All in all, I'd recommend this primarily to people who work in or engage with mental health support systems and would like to learn more about supporting LGBTQ populations. It might also have strong appeal to LGBTQ people who are looking to learn more about queer history as it relates to mental health struggles.

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What happens, then, to all these [trauma] histories once a trainee qualifies to begin practicing? Where, I ask myself, have all the traumatized therapists gone? It is as thought the issues leading to the therapy training have all been erased and a silence descends. As though people are no longer willing to acknowledge that they have been "them" as well as "us." While some colleagues sometimes speak in private about their past experiences, these discussions are largely hidden from view. In look through my library of therapy textbooks, I found references over and over again to the "person' of the therapist and its centrality to the therapeutic process. [...] Kahn (1997) states that "When all is said and done, nothing in our work may be more important than our willingness to bring as much of ourselves as possible to the therapeutic session." Almost every book I own says that the same - and I agree. This does not mean that we disclose our past experiences to clients, of course; to burden clients with our own pain is not only inappropriate but anti-therapeutic and, I would argue, potentially abusive. However, that self we bring to each encounter is inevitably made up in part of our own experiences, so why must we pretend among ourselves that we have no major psychological issues? Why is there an unspoken rule against authenticity? Where are the books that mention therapist experiences of trauma? It seems there is barely an acknowledgment that people like me exist.

- Paula J. Williams, "In Chiron's Footsteps" in Headcase: LGBTQ Writers and Artists on Mental Health and Wellness (Stephanie Schroeder and Teresa Theophano, eds.)

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“Queer stories w/ happy endings” is a pretty compelling logline. A.P. Raymond, Carolyn Gage, E H Timms, Evelyn Deshane, Kay C. Sulli, Nyri A. Bakkalian, Sacha Lamb, Shira Glassman, Teresa Theophano. #bookblogger #bookstagram from my Instagram

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“Queer stories w/ happy endings” is a pretty compelling logline. A.P. Raymond, Carolyn Gage, E H Timms, Evelyn Deshane, Kay C. Sulli, Nyri A. Bakkalian, Sacha Lamb, Shira Glassman, Teresa Theophano. #bookblogger #bookstagram

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Meet Teresa Theophano 

the author of the eighties joy, "Hunt and Peck" in our anthology Queerly Loving Volume One, talk with us about superheroes, tv shows and her short story!

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Tonight at 7 @bgsqd Join authors Esther Rapoport, PsyD, Stephanie Schroeder, JD, and Teresa Theophano, LCSW for a discussion of LGBTQ mental health and their respective newly published books. @brooklynfemme @stephs910 (at Bureau of General Services-Queer Division) https://www.instagram.com/bgsqd/p/Bwu-8eCFMja/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1h9gjhhn5qw4s

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Tonight from 6 PM – 7:30 PM in SFPL’s James C. Hormel Center (3rd Floor)

Be sure to catch editors Stephanie Schroeder and Teresa Theophano (all the way from NYC!) for a conversation with Bay Area contributors Guy Albert, Lynn Breedlove, and Chana Wilson.