Clinical Aspects Of Male Homosexuality
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...is recognized as one of the 20th centurys leading psychoanalysts studying homosexuality and the psychological realities of life as a homosexual. As Bieber points in the opening lines of his Clinical Aspects of Male Homosexuality, to assume that all homosexuals are the same is as ridiculous as making the assumption that all heterosexuals are the same. Each differs from another for the simple reason that each is an individual. Bieber acknowledges that the determinants of sexuality have been studied for the past century. (Bieber died at the age of 80 in 1991.) As psychiatrists such as Sigmund Freud and Richard Kraft-Ebing began such explorations into sexuality at the end of the 19th century, numerous theories regarding homosexuality presented themselves and ranged from ideas that homosexuality was an inborn and fixed disorder: (pp. 249) to the idea that it was the end result of an detrimental childhood event.
It should be noted that Freud was one of the first to offer the theory of an experiential cause or aspect in the development of homosexuality and that he took exception...
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