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Mental health professionals can get beyond culture’s profound fear of and antagonism to homosexual persons, but generally not without effort at learning and self-examination. The personal and clinical rewards are considerable.
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Levine, S.B. (1992). Homosexualities. In: Sexual Life. Critical Issues in Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0852-0_12
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