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    The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World (Paperback) By (author) Alan Downs

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    Short Description for The Velvet Rage Drawing on contemporary research, the author's own struggle with shame and anger, and stories from his patients, this title describes the stages of a gay man's journey out of shame and offers practical and inspired strategies to stop the cycle of avoidance and self-defeating behaviour.
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    Title
    The Velvet Rage
    Subtitle
    Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) Alan Downs
    Physical properties
    Format: Paperback
    Number of pages: 240
    Width: 137 mm
    Height: 208 mm
    Thickness: 20 mm
    Weight: 272 g
    Audience
    General/trade
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9780738215679
    ISBN 10: 0738215678
    Classifications
    BISAC category code: PSY013000
    Dewey: 306.76620973
    BISAC category code: SOC012000
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: S3.4
    Edition
    2, Revised
    Edition statement
    2nd Revised edition
    Publisher
    The Perseus Books Group
    Imprint name
    PERSEUS BOOKS
    Publication date
    14 June 2012
    Publication City/Country
    Reading, MA/US
    Main description
    A groundbreaking examination of the psychology of homosexuality, why it leads to shame over one's identity and how to overcome it
    Review quote
    "The Velvet Rage is becoming a touchstone in gay culture just as Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin was in the 30s, Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story in the 60s and Larry Kramer's Faggots in the 70s." (Observer Magazine)"
    Biographical note
    Alan Downs, PhD is a clinical psychologist practicing in Beverley Hills, California. The former CEO of Michael's House Treatment Center, Downs now maintains a thriving private psychotherapy practice and an intensive outpatient addiction programme.