Jack Drescher MD

PubMed

• Moving beyond Personality Disorders: A Challenge for the.
  Jacob E Perlson, Claire Koljack, Jack Drescher, Deborah L Cabaniss
  Psychodynamic Psychiatry. 2025-03-01
• 1 citations
  Improving the approach to LGBTQ persons in mental health care settings: a clinician's perspective.
  Jack Drescher
  World Psychiatry. 2024-06-01
• 4 citations
  Informed Consent or Scare Tactics? A Response to Levine et al.'s "Reconsidering Informed Consent for Trans-Identified Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults".
  Jack Drescher
  Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy. 2023-01-01

Journal Articles

• Ethical Issues Raised by the Treatment of Gender Variant Prepubescent Children  
  Drescher J, Pula J, The Hastings Center Report, 9/2014
• Proposed Declassification of Disease Categories Related to Sexual Orientation in ICD-11: Rationale and Evidence from the Working Group on Sexual Disorders and Sexual H...  
  32. Cochran SD, Drescher J, Kismodi E, Giami A, García-Moreno C, Reed, GM, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 9/1/2014
• Controversies in Gender Diagnoses  
  Drescher J, Journal LGBT Health, 1/1/2014
• Ghosts in the Consulting Room: A Discussion of Anson's "Ghosts in the Dressing Room  
  Drescher J, Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health, 1/1/2013
• The Removal of Homosexuality from the DSM: Its Impact on Today's Marriage Equality Debate  
  Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health, 1/1/2012
• The GAP [Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry] Online LGBT Mental Health Curriculum  
  Barber M, Drescher J, Rosario V, Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health, 1/1/2012
• Opinions about the DSM Gender Identity Disorder Diagnosis: Results from an International Survey Administered to Organizations Concerned with the Welfare of Transgender...  
  Vance Jr. SR, Cohen-Kettenis PT, Drescher J, Meyer-Bahlburg HFL, Pfafflin F, Zucker KJ, International Journal of Transgenderism, 1/1/2010
• Transsexualism, Gender Identity Disorder and the DSM  
  Drescher J, Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health, 1/1/2010
• When Politics Distorts Science: What Mental Health Professionals Can Do  
  Drescher J, Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health, 1/1/2009
• Handle with Care: The Psychoanalysis of a Touchy Case  
  Drescher J, Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health, 1/1/2009
• From Bisexuality to Intersexuality: Rethinking Gender Categories  
  Drescher J, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 1/1/2007
• The Spitzer Study and the Culture Wars  
  Drescher J, Archives of Sexual Behavior, 1/1/2003
• In memory of Stephen A Mitchell, PhD  
  Drescher J, Studies in Gender & Sexuality, 1/1/2002
• Invisible Gay Adolescents: Developmental Narratives of Gay Men  
  Drescher J, Adolescent Psychiatry: Annals of the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry, 1/1/2002
• Don't Ask, Don't Tell: A Gay Man's Perspective on the Psychoanalytic Training Experience between 1973 and 1991  
  Drescher J, J. Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy, 1/1/2002
• Causes and Becauses: On Etiological Theories of Homosexuality  
  Drescher J, The Annual of Psychoanalysis, 1/1/2002
• Ethical Concerns Raised When Patients Seek to Change Same-sex Attractions  
  Drescher J, J. Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy, 1/1/2001
• Cornucopia  
  Drescher J, Gender & Psychoanalysis, 1/1/2000
• The Therapist's Authority and the Patient's Sexuality  
  Drescher J, J. Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy, 1/1/1999
• Contemporary Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Gay Men: With a Commentary on Reparative Therapy of Homosexuality  
  Drescher J, J. Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy, 1/1/1999
• I'm Your Handyman: A History of Reparative Therapies  
  Drescher J, J. Homosexuality, 1/1/1998
• From Preoedipal to Postmodern: Changing Psychoanalytic Attitudes toward Homosexuality  
  Drescher J, Gender & Psychoanalysis, 1/1/1997
• Across the Great Divide: Gender Panic in the Psychoanalytic Dyad  
  Drescher J, Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy, 1/1/1997
• A Discussion across Sexual Orientation and Gender Boundaries: Reflections of a Gay Male Analyst to a Heterosexual Female Analyst  
  Drescher J, Gender & Psychoanalysis, 1/1/1996
• The Elicitation of a Movement Disorder by Trazodone: Case Report  
  Demuth, GW, Breslow, RE, Drescher, J, J. Clinical Psychiatry, 1/1/1985
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Books/Book Chapters

• Textbook of Psychoanalysis 
  Chapter: Gender and sexuality in PostBinary times 
  Page 31 - 47Jack Drescher, Ann D'ErcoleEditors: G. Gabbard, B. Litowitz, P. Williams.American Psychiatric Publishing, Washington, DCEdition 3rd,2025
• Kaplan and Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry 
  Chapter: Gender identity, gender variance and gender dysphoria/incongruence 
  Page 2101 - 2120Jack Drescher, William ByneEditors: R. Boland; M. Verduin.Wolters Kluwer, PhiladelphiaEdition 11th,2024
• Kaplan and Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry 
  Chapter: Gay and lesbian identities, and homosexual behavior 
  Page 2057 - 2090Jack Drescher, William ByneEditors: R. Boland; M. Verduin.Wolters Kluwer, PhiladelphiaEdition 11th,2024
• Tasman's Psychiatry 
  Chapter: Gender Incongruence/Gender Dysphoria 
  Drescher J, Yarbrough EEditors: Tasman A, Riba MB, Schulze TG, Ng C, Alarcón RD, Alfonso CA, Toševski DL, Kanba S, Ndetei D.Springer Nature, SwitzerlandEdition 5th,2023
• Tasman’s Psychiatry 
  Chapter: LGBTQ Individuals 
  Yarbrough E, Aoun EG, Drescher JEditors: Tasman A, Riba MB, Schulze TG, Ng C, Alarcón RD, Alfonso CA, Toševski DL, Kanba S, Ndetei D.Springer Nature, SwitzerlandEdition 5th,2023
• Sexual Minorities and Mental Health: Current Perspectives and New Directions 
  Chapter: Foreword 
  Page vii - xDrescher, JEditors: Semlyen J, Rohleder P.Palgrave MacMillan, London, UK2023
• Banning ‘Conversion Therapy’ 
  Chapter: Historical, Clinical and Ethical Perspectives: An update on I’m Your Handyman 
  Page 59 - 67Drescher, JEditors: Trispiotis I, Purshouse C.Hart Publishing, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK2023
• Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Change Efforts: Evidence, Effects, and Ethics 
  Chapter: Foreword 
  Page xi - xvDrescher, JEditors: Haldeman, DC.American Psychological Association Books, Washington, DC2022
• Gabbard’s Textbook of Psychotherapeutic Treatments in Psychiatry 
  Chapter: Issues Arising in Psychotherapy with LGBTQ+ Patients 
  Page 611 - 622Drescher, J, Fadus, MEditors: Crisp-Han, H, Gabbard, G.American Psychiatric Press, Washington, DCEdition 2nd,2022
• Gabbard’s Textbook of Psychotherapeutic Treatments in Psychiatry 
  Chapter: Introduction to Gender and Sexualities in Psychotherapy 
  Page 609 - 611Drescher, JEditors: Crisp-Han, H, Gabbard, G.American Psychiatric Press, Washington, DCEdition 2nd,2022
• Sexuality and Gender Now: Moving Beyond Heteronormativity 
  Chapter: From Bisexuality to Intersexuality: Rethinking Gender Categories 
  Page 167 - 188Drescher, JEditors: Hertzmann L, Newbigin J.Routledge, NY and London2019
• American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychiatry 
  Chapter: Treatment of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Patients 
  Page 1185 - 1212Drescher J, Roberts LW, Termuehlen, GEditors: Roberts, LW.American Psychiataric Press, Washington DCEdition 7th,2019
• Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine: Gender in the Genomic Era 
  Chapter: Gender Diagnoses 
  Page 17 - 26Drescher, JEditors: Marianne J. Legato.Academic Press (Elsevier), LondonEdition 3rd,2017
• The Unknowable, the Unspeakable, and the Unsprung: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Truth, Scandal, Secrets and Lies 
  Chapter: Trauma and Psychoanalysis: Hierarchies of Suffering 
  Page 61 - 68Drescher, JEditors: Jean Petrucelli, Sarah Schoen.Routledge, New York2017
• Queering Psychoanalysis: Psychoanalyse und Queer Theory - Transdisziplinäre Verschränkungen 
  Chapter: Von Bisexualität zu Intersexualität: Geschlechterkategorien Neu Denken 
  Page 49 - 96Drescher, JEditors: Esther Hutfless, Barbara Zach.Zaglossus, Vienna2017
• Kaplan and Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 10th Edition 
  Chapter: Gender identity, gender variance and gender dysphoria 
  Page 2023 - 2039Drescher, J, Byne, W.Editors: B.J. Sadock, V.A. Sadock, P. Ruiz.Wolters Kluwer, PhiladelphiaEdition 10th,2017
• The Analyst’s Voice: Narratives on Developing a Psychoanalytic Identity 
  Chapter: Becoming a Psychoanalyst 
  Page 77 - 93Drescher, JEditors: Linda Hillman, Therese Rosenblatt.Routledge, New York2017
• Kaplan and Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry 
  Chapter: Homosexuality, Gay and Lesbian Identities, and Homosexual Behavior 
  Page 1982 - 2013Drescher, J, Byne, WEditors: Benjamin J. Sadock, Virginia A. Sadock, Pedro Ruiz.Wolters Kluwer, PhiladelphiaEdition 10th,2017
• Ghosts in the Twentieth Century: Echoes of Trauma in Psychoanalysis 
  Chapter: Ghosts in Psychoanalysis’ Closet 
  Page 124 - 125Drescher, JEditors: Adrienne Harris, Margery Kalb, Susan Klebanoff.Routledge, New York2016
• Oxford Handbook of Psychiatric Ethics 
  Chapter: Ethical Issues in Treating LGBT Patients 
  Page 180 - 192Drescher, JEditors: John Sadler, C.W. van Staden & K.W.M. Fulford.Oxford University Press, Oxford2015
• Psychiatry 
  Chapter: Gender Dysphoria 
  Page 1339 - 1349Drescher, JEditors: Alan Tasman, Jeffrey A. Lieberman, Jerald Kay, Michael B. First & Michelle Riba.Wiley, New YorkEdition 4th,2015
• American Psychiatric Press Textbook of Psychiatry 
  Chapter: Treatment of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Patients 
  Drescher JEditors: Hales RE, Yudofsky SC, Roberts L.American Psychiatric Press, Washington, DC2014
• Gender Dysphoria and Disorders of Sex Development 
  Chapter: Gender Identity Diagnoses: History and Controversies 
  Drescher JEditors: Kreukels BPC, Steensma TD, de Vries ALC.Springer, New York2013
• Treating Transgender Children and Adolescents: An Interdisciplinary Discussion 
  Editors: Drescher J, Byne W.Routledge, New York and London2013
• Treating Transgender Children and Adolescents: An Interdisciplinary Discussion 
  Chapter: Introduction to the Treatment of Gender Dysphoric/Gender Variant (GD/GV) Children and Adolescents 
  Drescher J, Byne WEditors: Drescher J, Byne W.Routledge, New York and London2013
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Abstracts/Posters

• Psychoanalytic Attitudes toward Homosexuality
  Drescher J, Anti-Homosexual Bias in Psychiatry, American Academy of Psychoanalysis, New York, NY, 12/1/1993

Lectures

• Controversies in the Treatment of Transgender Children and Adolescents 
  New York, NY - 5/5/2014
• Paper Session 
  New York, NY - 5/3/2014
• LGBT Advocacy/activism in Professional Organizations 
  New York, NY - 5/2/2014
• Controversies and Techniques in Treating Transgender Children and Adolescents 
  New York, NY - 4/23/2014
• DSM-5 Update: Gender Dysphoria 
  Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY, 2013; Metropolitan Hospital, New York, NY, 2013; Flushing - 3/5/2014
• The Treatment of Transgender Children and Adolescents 
  Sheppard-Pratt Health Systems, Baltimore, MD, 2013; New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell), Westch - 2/11/2014
• In-service on LGBT Issues 
  Silver Hill Hospital, New Canaan, CT - 10/18/2013
• Hierarchies of Suffering 
  New York, NY - 10/5/2013
• From Gender Identity Disorders to Gender Incongruence; From Mental Disorder to Something Else: Proposed Revisions to the ICD-11 
  San Francisco, CA - 5/21/2013
• Can the Psychoanalysis of the Future Bring Anything to Sex and Gender Studies? 
  Boston, MA - 4/28/2013
• Psychotherapy with Lgbt Patients 
  Maastricht - 4/12/2013
• Theorizing Homosexuality: What Does It All Mean? 
  Maastricht - 4/12/2013
• Can Sexual Orientation Be Changed? 
  United Nations Church Center, New York, NY - 1/31/2013
• Gay Mainstream and Alternative Styles: Variations on Therapeutic Approaches in Patients Who Wish to Examine Their Orientation 
  Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel - 10/16/2012
• "Therapolitics": Mutual Influence of the Therapeutic Process and Social Processes within the LGBT Community 
  Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel - 10/16/2012
• The Politics of Sexual Science: A Gay Psychiatrist's Report from the Trenches of the Culture Wars 
  Philadelphia, PA - 5/7/2012
• Queer Diagnoses: Parallels and Contrasts in the History of Homosexuality, Gender Variance and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) 
  Multiple locations, 2010, 2011 - 3/8/2012
• Shamed Bodies, Unsettled Genders 
  New York, NY - 3/3/2012
• The Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Gay Patients 
  Multiple locations, 2008, 2009 - 12/7/2011
• Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Perspectives on Antihomosexual Attitudes 
  Brooklyn VA Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY - 12/2/2011
• Homosexuality: A Clinical Primer 
  Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY - 10/4/2011
• Gid in the DSM-5: An Update 
  Atlanta, GA - 9/24/2011
• How Apa's 1973 Decision to Remove Homosexuality from the DSM Contributed to Today's Culture Wars about Marriage Equality 
  Honolulu, HI - 5/18/2011
• Queer Diagnoses: Homosexuality, Gender Variance, and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) 
  Multiple locations, 2010 - 3/18/2011
• Should We Extend or Restrict the Concept of Addiction? 
  Universite de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France - 3/18/2011
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