JackDrescherMD

PubMed

• 44 citations
  Controversies in Gender Diagnoses
  Jack Drescher
  LGBT Health. 2014-03-01
• 133 citations
  Out of DSM: Depathologizing Homosexuality
  Jack Drescher
  Behavioral Sciences. 2015-12-04
• 155 citations
  Proposed declassification of disease categories related to sexual orientation in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (...
  Susan D. Cochran, Jack Drescher, Eszter Kismödi, Alain Giami, Claudia García-Moreno
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 2014-06-17

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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