Richard Gartner


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 , he is a Past President of the organization and now chairs its Advisory Board. 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.

Career

Richard Gartner is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute for Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychiatry 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 and Beyond Betrayal: Taking Charge of Your Life after Boyhood Sexual Abuse and as the editor of Understanding the Sexual Betrayal of Boys and Men: The Trauma of Sexual Abuse, 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" ", and 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 Psychoanalysis 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 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''.

Education

Dr. Gartner received his bachelor's degree in psychology from Haverford College in 1967. He went on to receive his MS and Ph.D in clinical psychology, both from Columbia University.

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