Gay Relationships by Tina B Tessina

Gay Relationships by Tina B Tessina

Gay Relationships is a comprehensive guide to creating healthy, loving relationships for gay men and lesbian women. Tina Tessina, Ph.D., provides unique insight into the special issues faced by same-sex couples and offers practical and sensitive advice that all gay men and women will find valuable, whether they are looking for a partner, are currently in the throes of a relationship, or are hurting from the end of a relationship and wondering how to make the next one better.

"For same-sex couples who have always had to mentally revise heterosexually oriented relationship material, finally here is a book addressed to you, and one worth waiting for. Tina Tessina has written a first-rate how-to manual.... This book is superbly simple, clearly and sensitively written."-San Francisco Bay Guardian

"A valuable, helpful book filled with enlightening information."-Seattle Gay News

Erica Manfred is a freelance journalist in her early sixties who separated from her husband in 2001 and got divorced in 2006. Her personal essays and self-help articles about relationships, parenting, consumer issues, health, legal issues and other subjects have appeared in Cosmopolitan, New York Times Magazine, Ms., New Age Journal, New York Newsday, Parenting, Village Voice, Woman's Day, SELF, Consumers Digest, Ladies Home Journal, Bottom Line/Personal, and many others. Two of her essays have been anthologized in college textbooks. As a contributing editor to Bottom Line/Personal consumer newsletter for ten years, she interviewed hundreds of experts in the popular psychology, health and many other fields and translated their ideas into useful articles that emphasized self-help. She is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, Freelance Success; the Mystery Writers of America and the Professional Association of Resume Writers. Her most recent project was as co-author and self-publisher of a consumer medical book: The Doctor's Guide to Weight Loss Surgery, with Louis Flancbaum M.D., which was sold to Random House in 2003. She is currently running a women's divorce support group in Woodstock, New York under the auspices of the Mental Health Association of Ulster County. She has a background in social work as a caseworker for the New York State Division for Youth where she counseled families and children for eight years.

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ISBN 13	9780874775662
ISBN 10	0874775663
Title	Gay Relationships
Author	Tina B Tessina
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Tarcher/Putnam,US
Year published	1990-04-01
Number of pages	240
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.