American Psychoanalysts and Homosexuality

My very extensive and varied experience of psychoanalysis as a patient in both Europe and the United States corroborates much that Henry Abelove writes in “Freud, Male Homosexuality, and the Americans” [Dissent, Winter 1986]. I indeed agree with him that most American analysts have tended to pervert Freud’s views on homosexuality, whether male or female, and to have injected into them some very American notions of morality and, above all, of social conformism or int...