ABSTRACT
This chapter describes democratization of feeling in relation to sex, sexuality and gender and the way this is configured via emotion words and concepts within the therapeutic arena. The influence of queer theory as a way of democratizing feeling and freeing it from the definition of emotion words and concepts, is essential if we are to liberate everyday sexual and gender practices to such an extent they introduce a queer praxis. The rise of minoritarian models led to the idea of LGBT identities whereby the heterosexual/non-heterosexual binarism is brought into existence. Open transgression of heteronormativity led to various charges that led to trainees being aware of not fitting in, being excluded and in many cases, being completely isolated. As a social theory, the work of Pierre Bourdieu, in particular the writing on 'cultural field', 'habitus' and 'bodily hexis' may be usefully deployed to analyse the therapeutic context.
