Richard Gartner

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Richard B. Gartner (born in New York City

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], he is a Past President of the organization and now chairs its advisory board.[1] 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.[2]

Career

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 the Service's director from 1994 to 2005. He is also a training and supervising analyst and on the faculty of the White Institute.

He is also known as the author of the books Betrayed as Boys: Psychodynamic Treatment of Sexually Abused Men (1999, 2001)and Beyond Betrayal: Taking Charge of Your Life after Boyhood Sexual Abuse (2005) and as the editor of Understanding the Sexual Betrayal of Boys and Men: The Trauma of Sexual Abuse (2018), Healing Sexually Betrayed Men and Boys: Treatment for Sexual Abuse, Assault, and Trauma, "Trauma and Countertrauma, Resilience and Counterresilience: Insights from Psychoanalysts and Trauma Experts" (2017), and Memories of Sexual Betrayal: Truth, Fantasy, Repression, and Dissociation (1997). 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 Psychoanalysis (NAAP) and was translated into Japanese language in 2005 under the title Shōnen e no Seiteki Gyakutai: Danseihigaisha no Shintekigaishō to Seishinbunseki Chiryō.[3]

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 throughout the United States and in Canada, South Arica, Australia, China, Hungary, Israel, and Iran. In 2002 after the

Catholic sex abuse cases were revealed, USA Today sought him to comment about sexual abuse against males.[4] Interviews with him have also appeared in such print outlets as the New York Times, Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, London Times, USA Today, The Nation, and New York Newsday. In addition, he has been featured on CNN, CBS, NPR, Fox News, NBC News Channel, MSNBC, and ABC.com, among others, and on radio stations in the United States, Canada, Australia, and South Africa. He was the subject of a 2005 full-length interview, “A Conversation With Richard Gartner--Beyond Betrayal: Men Cope With Being the Victims,” in the Science Times of the New York Times.[5]

Education

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

BOOKS

ARTICLES

OP EDs

OPINION PAPERS

References

  1. ^ Boodman, Sandra G. (July 29, 2002). "How Deep The Scars Of Abuse?". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on March 10, 2020. Retrieved August 24, 2010.
  2. ^ Dreifus, Claudia (March 1, 2005). "A CONVERSATION WITH: RICHARD GARTNER; Beyond the Bounds of Betrayal: Men Cope With Being the Victims". The New York Times. Retrieved August 24, 2010.
  3. ^ 少年への性的虐待―男性被害者の心的外傷と精神分析治療 (in Japanese). ASIN 4861820138.
  4. ^ Kornblum, Janet (June 19, 2002). "Calls to sex abuse hotlines increase after scandal". USA Today. Retrieved August 24, 2010.
  5. ^ Dreyfus, Claudia (March 1, 2005). "A Conversation with Richard Gartner--Beyond Betrayal: Men Cope with being the Victims". New York Times.

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