Series: Diverse Sexualities, Genders, and Relationships

This guidebook is designed to increase readers’ social resilience and assertiveness in response to minority stress. It highlights the need for belonging and community building, promoting a safe, collaborative, and peaceful coexistence within our diverse, pluralistic cultures. The LGBTQIA+ Peacemaking Book Project offers two guidebooks, Feel Secure in Yourself and Relate to Others with Confidence, along with twelve e-resources self-published...

What is compersion? Is it the "opposite" of jealousy, as it is usually believed? Is it an emotion or a behaviour? What causes it to arise and bloom? Can we "learn" compersion or invite more of it into our lives? Based on her seminal research with consensually non-monogamous (CNM) individuals, Dr. Marie Thouin unravels these questions and more in the...

This book explores the unique group of elders, aged fifty-five and older, who practice some form of consensual nonmonogamy. It covers both the joys and challenges of multiple relationships for elders and explores how their relationships develop and evolve. Polyamorous elders face the complexities of juggling multiple relationships, as well as navigating all the issues of aging: managing medical conditions...

As the first comprehensive, intersectional examination of consensual non-monogamy, The Handbook of Consensual Non-Monogamy provides evidence-based research and practice across mental health disciplines on working with consensual non-monogamous (CNM) people and relationships. Leading experts in this emerging field provide counsellor educators and practising clinicians with the authoritative, essential information they need to serve a growing—yet frequently stigmatised—client population with affirmative,...