Topic: Psychoanalysis & Homosexuality

"Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function, produced by a certain arrest of sexual development. Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and modern times have been homosexuals, several of the greatest men among them (Plato, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, etc.). It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime -- and a cruelty, too."  

--Sigmund Freud, Father of Psychoanalysis

Guest: Constance Kaplan, MFT

Constance Kaplan is a Marriage, Family and Child Psychotherapist who specializes in working with the unique issues of creative artists and their families.

Ms. Kaplan is President of the Association for Psychoanalytic Thought of Southern California, an affiliate of the Southern California Psychoanalytic Society. APT is part of a nationwide professional organization that applies contemporary psychoanalytic ideas to compelling issues and settings such as the changing family, sexuality, spirituality, childrearing, the media, science, politics and the workplace as analytic ideas evolve in the 21st century. She is on the Committee for Gay and Lesbian Issues and the Committee for Psychotherapy Associates at The American Psychoanalytic Association. She is a member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. Ms. Kaplan is a founding board member of Wendy's Hope, an affiliate of the City of Hope.

Ms. Kaplan received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Tufts University, her Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage, Family, Child psychotherapy from Antioch University, Los Angeles, and is a graduate of the Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Training Program at the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute.

Her diverse private psychotherapy practice is located in West Los Angeles.