››  sort by topic Our staff are constantly seeking to advance their knowledge and expertise through research and publication for general and professional audiences. We have included some of their papers below: ››  Professional Papers by Dr. Margaret Nichols ››  Professional Papers by IPG Staff ››  Popular Papers by Dr. Nichols and IPG Staff Professional Papers by Dr. Margaret Nichols: Therapy With Sexual Minorities: Queering Practice published in Principles and Practice of Sex Therapy, Fourth Edition, edited by Sandra Leiblum, Guilford Press, 2007. Co-authored by Michael Shernoff. Psychotherapeutic Issues With "Kinky" Clients: Clinical Problems, Yours and Theirs published in Sadomasochism: Powerful Pleasures, edited by Charles Moser, Ph.D., M.D. and Peggy J. Kleinplatz, Ph.D, Haworth Press, 2006. Sexual Function in Lesbians and Lesbian Relationships published in Female Sexual Dysfunction, edited by I. Goldstein, C. M. Meston, S. Davis and M. Traish, Parthenon Publishing, 2005. Leading Comment: Rethinking Lesbian Bed Death published in Journal of the British Association for Sexual and Relationship Therapy, Vol. 19, No. 4, November 2004. Psychology And BDSM: Pathology Or Individual Difference? published in New Jersey Psychologist, 2002. Also published in the magazine Prometheus, Spring 2002. Sex Therapy with Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, and "Kinky" Clients published in Principles and Practice of Sex Therapy, Third Edition, edited by Sandra Leiblum and Ray Rosen, Guilford Press, 2000. Sexual Desire Disorder in Lesbian-Feminist Couple: The Intersection of Therapy and Politics published in Case Studies in Sex Therapy, edited by Raymond C. Rosen and Sandra R. Leiblum, Guildford Press, 1995. Therapy With Bisexual Women: Working On The Edge of Emerging Cultural and Personal Identities published in Women In Context, Toward a Feminist Reconstruction of Psychotherapy, edited by Marsha Pravder Mirkin, Guildford Press, 1994. Lesbian Relationships: Implications for the Study of Sexuality and Gender published in Homosexuality/Heterosexuality, edited by McWhirter, Sanders and Reinisch, Oxford University Press, 1990. Women and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome: Issues For Prevention published in AIDS and Sex: An Integrated Biomedical and Biobehavorial Approach, edited by Bruce Voeller, June Machover Reinisch, and Michael Gottlieb, Oxford University Press, 1990. Bisexuality in Women: Myths, Realities, and Implications for Therapy published in Women and Sex Therapy, Closing the Circle of Sexual Knowledge, edited by Ellen Cole, PhD and Esther D. Rothblum, PhD, Harrington Park Press, 1988. Low Sexual Desire in Lesbian Couples published in Sexual Desire Disorders, edited by Sandra R. Leiblum and Raymond C. Rosen, Guildford Press, 1988. Lesbian Sexuality: Issues And Developing Theory and Doing Sex Therapy With Lesbians: Bending A Hetrosexual Paradigm To Fit a Gay Life-style published in Lesbian Psychologies: Explorations and Challenges, edited by The Boston Lesbian Psychologies Collective, University of Illinois Press, 1987. Professional Papers by IPG Staff: Extradyadic Sex and Gay Male Couples: Comparing Monogamous and Nonmonogamous Relationships written by Michael LaSala, published in Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services, Vol. 85 No. 3, 2004. Monogamy of the Heart: Extradyadic Sex and Gay Male Couples written by Michael LaSala, published in Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services, Vol. 17 Issue 3, 2004. The Importance of Partners To Lesbians' Intergenerational Relationships written by Michael LaSala, published in Social Work Research, Vol. 25 Issue 1, 2001. Lesbians, Gay Men, and Their Parents: Family Therapy for the Coming-Out Crisis written by Michael LaSala, published in Family Process, Vol. 39 Issue 1, 2000. Popular Papers by Dr. Nichols and IPG Staff: Déjà vu: Problems that Repeat in Relationships How to change those patterns we all seem to repeat over and over again in our relationships. Written by Dr. Margaret Nichols. When the Child Becomes the Parent to the Parent Issues facing children and aging parents. Written by Dr. Margaret Nichols. Turning up the Heat How to make sex hot again in long-term relationships. Written by Dr. Margaret Nichols. Reflections of a Queer Shrink Observations on twenty years of counseling within the G/L/B/T community. Written by Dr. Margaret Nichols. My Friend Rob How a friend who died of AIDS, transformed his life through his illness. Written by Dr. Margaret Nichols. Intimacy: What's Love Got To Do With It...? written by Susan Menahem. Making Love Stay written by Susan Menahem. Love Is The Path To Healing written by Judith Clarke Love Is The Path To Wholeness written by Judith Clarke Domestic Violence written by Judy Kabus. CPR For Lesbian Bed Death written by Susan Menahem. Size Discrimination written by Sherill Cantrell-Brown.