In this book I treat homophobia as if it is a symptom of an emotional disorder. It often is, and when it is, gay men and lesbians can significantly discount it, because it is an example of the pot calling the kettle beige. From Journal of Sex Research, May, 1999, by B. R. Simon Rosser. An in-depth clinical understanding of the origins, concomitants, and typology of homophobia remains one of the most urgent and challenging issues in modern sexology. Dr. Kantor’s latest book is an important and timely attempt to fill a recognized gap....The body of the book focuses on defining types of homophobia organized by psychiatric (DSM) syndromes…together with homophobia attributed to the various personality dsisorders. The remaining sections briefly examine causes from psychodynamic, biological, and cognitive perspectives, and offer treatment suggestions both for therapist and for gays and lesbians who encounter homophobes in daily life. The major strength of this book is that it opens up for psychoanalysis a topic neglected for too long. For students of psychiatry, it provides an excellent basis for a discussion of traditional homophobic assumptions and practices within the field. Indeed, Kantor is challenging psychiatry to break new ground, and is holding the field accountable for what many see as blatant prejudice inappropriate to modern medicine. A second strength of the book is the refreshing lack of assumption that all homophobia originates in latent homosexuality. Although an analytic approach to homophobia might be vulnerable to such a view, Kantor is to be commended for not succumbing to such an easy analysis. Nor does he pretend that analysis holds all the answers.… Kantor makes the bold premise that homophobia is an “emotional disorder.”…This conceptualization has challenging implications. By defining prejudice as pathology, Kantor can recommend that “Gays and lesbians can avoid being intimidated by thinking of serious homophobes as troubled individuals with emotional problems." HOMOPHOBIA: DESCRIPTION, DEVELOPMENT, AND DYNAMICS OF GAY BASHING Buy Book from Amazon.com MY GUY: A GAY MAN'S GUIDE TO A LASTING RELATIONSHIP Buy Book from Amazon.com TREATING EMOTIONAL DISORDERS IN GAY MEN Buy Book from Amazon.com