Richard Gartner
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Richard B. Gartner is a clinical psychologist who was trained both as a family therapist and an interpersonal psychoanalyst. One of the founders of MaleSurvivor: the National Organization on Male Sexual Victimization [www.malesurvivor.org], and he is a Past President of the organization and is now its media spokesman. He is known for his research and clinical work in the area of child sexual abuse
against boys and its aftermath for them as men.
He is also known as an author of the books such as Betrayed as Boys: Psychodynamic Treatment of Sexually Abused Men and Beyond Betrayal: Taking Charge of Your Life after Boyhood Sexual Abuse, as well as the editor of Memories of Sexual Betrayal: Truth, Fantasy, Repression, and Dissociation. Betrayed as Boys was Runner-up for the 2001 Gradiva Award for Best Book on a Clinical Subject given by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalyis (NAAP) and was translated into Japanese language
in 2005 under the title Shōnen e no Seiteki Gyakutai: Danseihigaisha no Shintekigaishō to Seishinbunseki Chiryō.
He has spoken in numerous venues about male sexual victimization, including the American Psychological and Psychiatric Associations; the Harvard University Medical School; the Sandor Ferenczi Society in Budapest; the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and various universities, rape intervention programs, and hospitals. In 2002 after the Catholic sex abuse cases were revealed, USA Today
sought him to comment about sexual abuse against males. Interviews with him have also appeared in such media print outlets as the New York Times, Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, USA Today, The Nation, and New York Newsday. In addition, he has been featured on CNN, CBS, Fox News, NBC News Channel, MSNBC, and ABC.com, among others, and on radio stations in the United States, Canada, Australia, and South Africa.
Child sexual abuse
Child sexual abuse is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation. Forms of child sexual abuse include asking or pressuring a child to engage in sexual activities , indecent exposure with intent to gratify their own sexual desires or to...
against boys and its aftermath for them as men.
Career
A Jewish American, Gartner is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute for Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychiatry (wawhite.org) in New York City, founded its Sexual Abuse Service and served as its director for 11 years. He is also a training and supervising analyst and on the faculty of the White Institute.He is also known as an author of the books such as Betrayed as Boys: Psychodynamic Treatment of Sexually Abused Men and Beyond Betrayal: Taking Charge of Your Life after Boyhood Sexual Abuse, as well as the editor of Memories of Sexual Betrayal: Truth, Fantasy, Repression, and Dissociation. Betrayed as Boys was Runner-up for the 2001 Gradiva Award for Best Book on a Clinical Subject given by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalyis (NAAP) and was translated into Japanese language
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
in 2005 under the title Shōnen e no Seiteki Gyakutai: Danseihigaisha no Shintekigaishō to Seishinbunseki Chiryō.
He has spoken in numerous venues about male sexual victimization, including the American Psychological and Psychiatric Associations; the Harvard University Medical School; the Sandor Ferenczi Society in Budapest; the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and various universities, rape intervention programs, and hospitals. In 2002 after the Catholic sex abuse cases were revealed, USA Today
USA Today
USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by Al Neuharth. The newspaper vies with The Wall Street Journal for the position of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, something it previously held since 2003...
sought him to comment about sexual abuse against males. Interviews with him have also appeared in such media print outlets as the New York Times, Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, USA Today, The Nation, and New York Newsday. In addition, he has been featured on CNN, CBS, Fox News, NBC News Channel, MSNBC, and ABC.com, among others, and on radio stations in the United States, Canada, Australia, and South Africa.
Education
Dr. Gartner received his bachelor's degree in psychology from Haverford College in 1967. He went on to receive his MS ('71) and Ph.D ('72) in clinical psychology, both from Columbia University.Works
- Betrayed as Boys: Psychodynamic Treatment of Sexually Abused Men (1999, 2001) ISBN 1572306440
- Memories of Sexual Betrayal: Truth, Fantasy, Repression, and Dissociation (1997) ISBN 1568217048
- Beyond Betrayal: Taking Charge of Your Life after Boyhood Sexual Abuse (2005) ISBN 9780471619109
- The Jewish men dancing inside me (2007). Chapter in The Still Small Voice, M Holzman, Ed. ISBN-10: 0807410578
- Failed "Fathers," boys betrayed (2007). Chapter in Predatory Priests, Silenced Victims, M.G. Frawley-O’Dea and V. Goldner, Eds. ISBN-10: 0826515479
- Predatory priests: Sexually abusing Fathers (2004). Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 5:31-56
- Effects on boys of priest abuse (2002). Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, 22:15-17
- Coming to terms with sexual abuse (2002). Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, 22:18.
- Relational aftereffects in manhood of boyhood sexual abuse (1999). Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 29:319-353.
- Sexual victimization of boys by men: Meanings and consequences (1999). Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy, 3:1-33.
- Cinematic depictions of boyhood sexual victimization (1999). Gender and Psychoanalysis, 4:253-289.
- On masculine strength, emotional detachment, and the praise of incest (1999). Gender and Psychoanalysis, 4: 307-316.
- An analytic group for sexually abused men (1997), International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 47:373-383. Originally presented as “Identifications and transferences in analytic group therapy for sexually abused men” at April, 1995 meeting of Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association, Santa Monica
- Considerations in the psychoanalytic treatment of men who were sexually abused as children (1997). Psychoanalytic Psychology, 14:13-41. Originally presented at April, 1993, meeting of Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association, New York, and the July, 1993, International Conference of the Sandor Ferenczi Society, Budapest
- Managing chronic loss and grief: Contrapuntal needs of an AIDS patient and his therapist (1997). Chapter in Hope and Mortality: Psychodynamic Approaches to AIDS and HIV, M. Blechner, Ed. ISBN-10: 0881632236
- Memories of sexual betrayal: Psychoanalytic perspectives on the debate (1997). Round Robin, Winter, 1997: 4-5, 16.
- Incestuous boundary violations in families of borderline patients (1996). Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 32:73-80. Originally presented at April, 1992, meeting of Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association, Philadelphia
- The relationship between Interpersonal Psychoanalysis and Family Therapy (1995). Chapter in Handbook of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis, M. Lionells, J. Fiscalini, C. Mann, and D. Stern, Eds. ISBN-10: 0881631205
- Gartner, R.B., Bass, A., and Wolbert, S. *The use of the one-way mirror in restructuring family boundaries(1979), Family Therapy, 6:27-37
- Gartner, R.B., Fulmer, R.H., Weinshel, M., and Goldklank, S. *The family life cycle: Developmental crises and their structural impact on families in a community mental health center (1978), Family Process, 17:47-58