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In the Shadow of the Epidemic: Being HIV-Negative in the Age of AIDS (Series Q) 1st Edition

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ISBN-13: 978-0822316268
ISBN-10: 0822316269
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Product Details

  • Series: Series Q
  • Hardcover: 328 pages
  • Publisher: Duke University Press Books; 1 edition (July 12, 1995)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0822316269
  • ISBN-13: 978-0822316268
  • Product Dimensions: 1 x 6.5 x 9.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,421,327 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 starsThe necessary balm
By A Customer on March 20, 1999
Format: Paperback
No other book -- and no other therapist -- have offered such a cogent and searching examination of the psychological factors attending on HIV seroconversion. This volume has set the tone for the debate on "barebacking" and other '90s phenonomena. But it is much more: a recipe for living, with no definitive conclusions, although with plenty of food for thought for the thoughtful reader. This is necessary reading for anyone who has quarrelled with their own HIV fantasies, or with guilt, or dread. It is a book for every gay man who lives the way we live now.
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4.0 out of 5 starsTwenty Years Later
By Magyar on May 23, 2015
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I am reading this book twenty years after it was written and long past the AIDS crisis, and particularly the situation of HIV negative people, has passed or at least been transferred into a very different kind of crisis. I am reading it both as a historical record for a project I am working on about that period, and also as a HIV negative gay man who lived through it.

As a historical record and account of the period, probably what was wore the worst was all the psychotherapy discussions and theorizing. Granted it was addressing a very specific set of issues at a very specific time, yet today reading these sections I find myself glazing over them.

What is interesting, and I think what makes this book still relevant, are the personal accounts of Odets' patients. Having read a lot of the writings about the AIDS crisis, I find that there is very little that talks about those who were HIV negative, but still were much much part of the trauma of the time. Their story has been very marginalized. In the midst of the long psychotherapy contextualizing sections, you can find their stories. Today the stories are more interesting than the psychotherapy theory.

While the chapter on Loss and Mourning centers in on a key element of the HIV negative experience, the chapters on "Being Alone" and "Being Sexual" really stand out as talking about experiences that were rarely acknowledged during the time.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA comprehensive and necessary volume
By A Customer on March 28, 2004
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In the Shadow of the Epidemic is an essential textbook for all mental health professionals. Set in a brilliant clinical framework, it retains in a stirring way a sense of the person within each case study; there is a wealth of knowledge balanced with a profound feeling within. I found that each chapter evoked a sense of pain, grief and loss. This awareness is critical in understanding the clinical issues that must be examined when treating this community. Every mental health professional must confront these issues. This book is the essential tool to accomplish this. I am eagerly waiting for the next volume from Dr. Odets.
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5.0 out of 5 starsCourage and compassion
By A Customer on March 28, 2004
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Walt Odets has had the courage and the insight to examine the AIDS epidemic as a crisis in mental health. Clinically sound, this is also a work filled with pathos and humanity. This book is a moving, thought-provoking, and ground-breaking exploration of the effects of a nightmare from which we have yet to awake.
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3.0 out of 5 starsOverstated, if not overrated
By A Customer on June 10, 2003
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An intriguing theory, but one of little real relevance to understanding phenomena such as the "Second Wave" of HIV. It has almost nothing to say about the wave of seroconversions among younger gay men, who are not afflicted by the guilt of surviving the AIDS deaths of friends they never had, and most of whom, far from seeing it as "inevitable," actually give precious little thought to the possibility of becoming infected before it's too late.
A nice contribution to our understanding of a small subset of new infections, but that's all it is.
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