Uncharted lives

Through identifying the passages and signposts of a gay man's psychological development, psychotherapist Stanley Siegel demonstrates that cultivating creativity is an adaptive strategy required for social and emotional survival throughout a gay man's life course. Forced from their earliest days to contend with the disadvantages of oppression and ostracism, to develop without encouragement from role models and families and friends, gay men repeatedly invent original solutions to life's dilemmas. Deprived of convention, they create their own road map to navigate the obstacles and challenges…