Richard C. Friedman
Richard C. Friedman (January 20, 1941 – March 31, 2020) was an academic psychiatrist, the Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at
Medical career
Friedman studied at Bard College in the early 1960s, received his MD from the University of Rochester in 1966 and completed his psychiatric residency at Columbia University in 1970, following which he spent two years with the United States Army Medical Corps working in the psychiatric department of William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso, Texas, with the rank of Major. He later worked at a number of hospitals in New York City whilst teaching at Columbia University and, from 1977, Cornell University. He was appointed to the faculty at Columbia in 1978 and appointed Lecturer in Psychiatry in 1994; at Cornell, he was appointed the Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in 1996. He held both posts concurrently with that of Research Professor of Psychology at the Derner Institute, Adelphi University (appointed 1989).[2]
Research
Friedman's early research was on deprivation experienced by physicians in training. He was the first person to demonstrate that sleep deprivation impaired the capacity of medical doctors in hospitals to function adequately.[3] His later psychiatric research looked at sexuality; he was one of the coauthors of Sexuality: New Perspectives (1985), which addressed sex roles and sexual disorders in women.[4]
He then studied the issues surrounding the way homosexuality was handled by conventional
He later wrote Sexual Orientation and Psychoanalysis (2002), co-authored with Jennifer I. Downey, which focuses on the role of psychoanalysis in the understanding of sexual orientation in both sexes. This book discusses in particular detail the role played by psychotherapy in ameliorating the long-term effects of anti-homosexual prejudice.[7] More recently, Friedman and Downey were the first to study the relevance of sexual differentiation of behavior to psychoanalytic theory and practice, arguing that the psychoanalytic approach to psychological development and functioning needed widespread revision.[8]
Friedman was a member of the
References
- ^ a b Severson, Kim (May 4, 2020). "Dr. Richard Friedman, Who Debunked Homosexuality Myth, Dies at 79". The New York Times. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
- ^ Richard Friedman. "Richard C Friedman MD - Curriculum Vitae". Retrieved November 18, 2018.
- ^ Friedman et al., 1971.
- ISBN 0-313-24207-0.
- ^ Goode, Erica (December 12, 1998). "On Gay Issue, Psychoanalysis Treats Itself". The New York Times. Retrieved November 18, 2018.
- ^ a b "Citation from the Mary S. Sigourney Award Trust". Retrieved November 18, 2018.
- ^ Friedman & Downey, 2002.
- S2CID 11564469.
Selected publications
- Friedman RC, Bigger JT, Kornfeld DS (1971). "The intern and sleep loss". The New England Journal of Medicine. 285 (4): 201–203. PMID 5087723.
- Friedman, R.C., Richard, R.M., and Vande Wiele, R.L. (eds.) (1974). Sex Differences in Behavior. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
- Friedman, R.C. (ed.) (1982). Behavior and the Menstrual Cycle. New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc.
- DeFries, Z., Friedman, R.C., and Corn, R. (eds.) (1985). Sexuality: New Perspectives. Conn.: Greenwood Press.
- Friedman, RC (1988). Male Homosexuality: A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspective. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press.
- Friedman, R.C. and Downey, J.I. (eds.) (1999). Masculinity and Sexuality: Selected Topics in the Psychology of Men, Annual Review Series (J. Oldham, M. Riba, and A. Tasman, eds.). Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Press, Inc.
- Friedman, RC; Downey JI (2002). Sexual Orientation and Psychoanalysis: Sexual Science and Clinical Practice. New York: Columbia University Press.
- 2008 edition published as Sexual Orientation and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Sexual Science and Clinical Practice.