Jack Drescher, MD

Adjunct Professor & Clinical Consultant | Interpersonal Track

Education

B.A. 1972, Brooklyn College
M.D. 1980, University of Michigan

Areas of Research/Interest

· Psychotherapy with LGBT patients
· Diagnostic formulations, past and present (DSM & ICD)
· Mental health representations in the media

External Affiliations

· Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons
· Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute

Fellowships/Honors

· 1993 Lawrence W. Kaufman Award (For an original paper by a graduating candidate), William A. White Psychoanalytic Institute
· 1994 Fellowship, American Psychiatric Association
· 1997 Award for Excellence in Communication, William Alanson White Society
· 1998 Elected Member, The American College of Psychiatrists
· 2000 Seventh Annual GALA Award for outstanding contributions to the gay and lesbian psychoanalytic community, Gay and Lesbian Analysts
· 2001 Elected Fellow, New York Academy of Medicine
· 2002 Co-Editor, Best Book on Gay, Lesbian and/or Bisexual Psychology (Sexual Conversion Therapy: Ethical, Clinical and Research Perspectives), Division 44 of the American Psychological Association
· 2003 Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric Association
· 2004 James Paulsen Service Award (for service to the organization), Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists
· 2004 Myer D. Mendelson, MD, Award (for outstanding contributions to psychiatry and psychoanalysis), William A. White Institute
· 2005 Candidate for President-Elect, American Psychiatric Association
· 2006 American Psychiatric Association’s Second Annual Irma Bland Award for Excellence in Teaching Residents as a voluntary faculty member to St. Luke’s—Roosevelt Hospital.
· 2009 Special Presidential Commendation, American Psychiatric Association.
· 2009 Distinguished Psychiatrist Lecturer, American Psychiatric Association.

· Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing Author Prize, August, 2012.

(For most downloaded authors of 2011)

· Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing (PEP-WEB).
· Harry Stack Sullivan Award Lecturer, March 6, 2013.
Sheppard-Pratt, Baltimore, MD.
· Health Professional Book Award, April 2014.
· The LGBT Casebook (American Psychiatric Press, 2012), Co-Editor
Society of Sex Therapy and Research (SSTAR).
· Elevation to Senior Fellow, April, 2015.
Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry.
· Elevation to Distinguished Life Fellow, 2016
American Psychiatric Association.
· Elevation to Fellow, 2016
American College of Psychiatrists.
· Albert M. Biele Visiting Professor in Psychiatry, April 27, 2016
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA.
· Award for Excellence in Editorial Writing as First Author of “The Growing Regulation of Conversion Therapy,” in the Journal of Medical Regulation of the Federation of State Medical Boards, April 26, 2018.
· John E. Fryer, MD Award for individual who has contributed to improving the mental health of sexual minorities, Annual Meeting of American Psychiatric Association, New York, NY, May 5, 2018.

Publications

Drescher, J. (1995). Anti-homosexual bias in training.  In:  Disorienting Sexuality:  Psychoanalytic Reappraisals of Sexual Identities, eds. T. Domenici & R.C. Lesser.   New York:  Routledge, pp. 227-241.

Drescher, J. (1996). Psychoanalytic subjectivity and male homosexuality.  In:  Textbook of Homosexuality and Mental Health, eds. R.P. CabaJ. & T.S. Stein.  Washington, DC:  American Psychiatric Press, pp. 173-189. 

Drescher, J. (1996). A discussion across sexual orientation and gender boundaries:  Reflections of a gay male analyst to a heterosexual female analyst.  Gender & Psychoanalysis, 1(2):223-237. 

Drescher, J. (1996). Across the great divide:  Gender panic in the psychoanalytic dyad.  Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy, 13(2):174-186.

Drescher, J. (1997). From preoedipal to postmodern:  Changing psychoanalytic attitudes toward homosexuality.  Gender & Psychoanalysis, 2(2):203-216. 

Drescher, J. (1998). I’m your handyman:  A history of reparative therapies.  J. Homosexuality, 36(1):19-42.

Drescher, J. (1998). Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man.  Hillsdale, NJ:  The Analytic Press. 

Drescher, J. (1998). Contemporary psychoanalytic psychotherapy with gay men:  With a commentary on reparative therapy of homosexuality.  J. Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy, 2(4):51-74. 

Drescher, J. (1999). The therapist’s authority and the patient’s sexuality.  J. Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy, 3(2):61-80. 

Drescher, J. (2001). Attending to sexual compulsivity in a gay man.  In:  Hungers and Compulsions:  The Psychodynamic Treatment of Eating Disorders and Addictions, eds. J. Petrucelli & C. Stuart. Northvale, NJ:  Jason Aronson, pp. 265-279. 

Drescher, J. (2002). In memory of Stephen A. Mitchell, Ph.D.  Studies Gender & Sexuality, 3(1):95-109. 

Drescher, J. (2002). Invisible Gay Adolescents:  The Developmental Narratives of Gay Men.  Adolescent Psychiatry, 26:73-94. 

Drescher, J. (2002). Causes and becauses:  On etiological theories of homosexuality.  In:  Rethinking Psychoanalysis and the Homosexualities (The Annual of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 30).  Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press, pp. 57-68. 

Drescher, J. (2002). Ethical issues in treating gay and lesbian patients.  Psychiatric Clinics North America, 25(3):605-621. 

Drescher, J. (2002). Don’t ask, don’t tell:  A gay man’s perspective on the psychoanalytic training experience between 1973 and 1991.  J. Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy, 6(1):45-55. 

Drescher, J., D’Ercole, A. & Schoenberg, E., eds. (2003). Psychotherapy with Gay Men and Lesbians:  Contemporary Dynamic Approaches.  New York:  Harrington Park Press. 

Drescher, J. (2003). The Spitzer study and the culture wars.  Archives Sexual Behavior, 32(5):431-432. 

Drescher, J., Stein, T.S. & Byne, W. (2005). Homosexuality, gay and lesbian identities, and homosexual behavior.  In:  Kaplan and Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 8th Edition, eds. B.J. Sadock & V.A. Sadock.  Baltimore, MD:  Williams and Wilkins, pp. 1936-1965. 

Drescher, J. & Zucker, K.J., eds. (2006). Ex-Gay Research:  Analyzing the Spitzer Study and Its Relation to Science, Religion, Politics, and Culture.  New York:  Harrington Park Press. 

Drescher, J. (2006). Gay and Depressed:  Combined pharmacotherapy and long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy with a depressed, gay man.  In:  DSM-IV TR Casebook:  Experts Tell How They Treated Their Own Patients, eds. R.L. Spitzer, M. First, J.B.W. Williams & M. Gibbons.  American Psychiatric Press, pp. 163-178. 

Drescher, J. & Merlino, J.P., eds. (2007). American Psychiatry and Homosexuality:  An Oral History. New York:  Harrington Park Press. 

Drescher, J. (2007). From bisexuality to intersexuality:  Rethinking gender categories.  Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 43(2):204-228. 

Drescher, J. (2008). A history of homosexuality and organized psychoanalysis.   J. American Academy of Psychoanalysis & Dynamic Psychiatry, 36(3):443-460.

Drescher, J., McCommon, B.H. & Jones, B.E. (2008). Treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender patients.  In:  APPI Textbook of Psychiatry, Fifth Edition, eds. R.E. Hale, S.C. Yudofsky & G. Gabbard.  Washington, DC:  APPI Press, pp. 1471-1487.

Drescher, J. (2009). Handle with care:  The psychoanalysis of a touchy case, J. Gay & Lesbian Mental Health, 13(1):4–20.

Drescher, J. (2009). Disparities affecting the psychiatric care of gay men.  In:  Disparities in Psychiatric Care:  Clinical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives, eds. P. Ruiz & A. Primm.  Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, pp. 75-85.

Drescher, J. & Byne, W. (2009). Homosexuality, gay and lesbian identities, and homosexual behavior.  In:  Kaplan and Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 9th Edition, eds. B.J. Sadock, V.A. Sadock & P. Ruiz.  Baltimore, MD:  Williams and Wilkins, pp. 2060-2090.

Drescher, J. (2009). When politics distorts science: What mental health professionals can do. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health, 13, 213–226, 2009.

Drescher, J. (2010). Queer diagnoses:  Parallels and contrasts in the history of homosexuality, gender variance, and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM).” Archives of Sexual Behavior, 39, 427–460.

Drescher J. & Byne, W. (2012). Introduction to the treatment of gender dysphoric/gender variant (GD/GV) children and adolescents. J Homosexuality, 59(3):295-300.

Drescher J. & Byne, W. (2012). Gender Dysphoric/Gender Variant (GD/GV) Children and Adolescents Summarizing What We Know and What We Have Yet to Learn. J Homosexuality, 59(3):501-510.

 

     Drescher, J., Cohen-Kettenis, P.T. & Winter, S. (2012). Minding the body: Situating gender diagnoses in the ICD-11. International Review of Psychiatry, 24(6): 568–577.

 

     Drescher, J. & Byne, W., eds. (2013). Treating Transgender Children and Adolescents: An Interdisciplinary Discussion. New York: Routledge.

 

     Drescher, J. (2013). Ghosts in the consulting room: A discussion of Anson’s “Ghosts in the Dressing Room.” J. Gay & Lesbian Mental Health, 17(1):112-120.

 

     Drescher, J. (2013). Gender identity diagnoses: History and controversies. In: Gender Dysphoria and Disorders of Sex Development, Eds. B.P.C. Kreukels, T.D. Steensma & A.L.C. de Vries. New York: Springer, pp. 137-150. 

 

     Drescher, J. (2013). Jay Greenberg and Steve Mitchell:  Interviews from the White Society Voice (1993-1994). Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 49(1):35-50.

 

     Drescher, J. (2014). Controversies in gender diagnoses. J LGBT Health, 1(1):9-15.

 

     Drescher, J. (2014). Treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender patients. In: APPI Textbook of Psychiatry, Sixth Edition, eds. R.E. Hales, S.C. Yudofsky & L.W. Roberts. Washington, DC: APPI Press, pp. 1293-1318.

 

     Drescher, J. (2014). Are the kids all right? Avuncular reflections on the gayby boom. J Gay & Lesbian Mental Health, 18(2):222-229.

 

     Drescher, J. (2014). I ragazzi stanno bene? Il Gayby Boom visto con gli occhi di uno zio (Are the kids all right? Avuncular reflections on the gayby boom). Quaderno de Gli Argonauti, anno XIV, n. 27, giugno:7-16.

 

     Drescher, J. & Pula, J. (2014). Ethical issues raised by the treatment of gender variant prepubescent children. The Hastings Center Report, 44(Suppl 4):S17-22.

 

     Drescher, J. (2015). Can sexual orientation be changed? J Gay & Lesbian Mental Health, 19(1):84-93.

 

     Drescher, J. (2015). Gender policing in the clinical setting: Discussion of Sandra Silverman’s “The Colonized Mind: Gender, Trauma and Mentalization.” Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 25(1):67-76.

 

     Drescher, J. (2015). Gender dysphoria. In: Psychiatry, 4th Edition, Eds. A. Tasman, J.A. Lieberman, J. Kay, M.B. First & M. Riba. New York: Wiley, pp. 1339-1349.

 

     Drescher, J. (2015). Queer diagnoses revisited: the past and future of homosexuality and gender diagnoses in DSM and ICD. International Review of Psychiatry, 27(5):386-395.

 

     Drescher, J. (2015). Ethical issues in treating LGBT patients.” In: Oxford Handbook of Psychiatric Ethics, Eds. J. Sadler, C.W. van Staden & K.W.M. Fulford. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 180-192.

 

     Drescher, J. (2015). Out of DSM: Depathologizing homosexuality. Behavioral Sciences, 5:565-575.

 

     Drescher, J., Cohen-Kettenis, P.T. & Reed, G.M. (2016). Gender incongruence of childhood in the ICD-11: Controversies, proposal, and rationale. Lancet Psychiatry, 3(3):297-304.

 

     Drescher, J. (2016). Ghosts in psychoanalysis’ closet. In: Ghosts in the Consulting Room: Echoes of Trauma in Psychoanalysis, Eds. A. Harris, M. Kalb & S. Klebanoff. New York: Routledge, pp. 124-125.

 

     Drescher, J. (2016). Gender diagnoses in DSM and ICD. Psychiatric Annals, 46(6):350-354.

 

     Drescher, J. (2016). I ragazzi stanno bene. Giornale Italiana di Psicologia, XLIII (1-2):125-128.

 

     Drescher, J., Schwartz, A., Casoy, F., McIntosh, C.A., Hurley, B., Ashley, K. et al. (2016). The Growing Regulation of Conversion Therapy. J Medical Regulation, 102(2):7-12.

 

     Drescher, J. (2016). La psicoanalisi oggi (Psychoanalysis today). Psicoterapie e Scienze Umane, L(3):433-438.

 

     Drescher, J. (2017). Trauma and psychoanalysis: Hierarchies of suffering. In: The Unknowable, the Unspeakable, and the Unsprung: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Truth, Scandal, Secrets and Lies, eds. J. Petrucelli & S. Schoen. New York, NY: Routledge, pp. 61-68.

 

     Drescher, J. (2017). Smoke gets in your eyes: Discussion of “When Harry met Jimmie.” Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 14(1):-31-39.

 

     Drescher, J. (2017). Destins de l’homosexualité dans le mouvement psychanalytique (A history of homosexuality in the psychoanalytic movement). Insistance, 12:29-50.

 

     Drescher, J. (2017). Gender diagnoses. In: Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine: Gender in the Genomic Era, 3rd Edition, ed M.J. Legato. London: Academic Press (Elsevier), pp. 17-26.

 

     Drescher, J. & Byne, W. (2017). Homosexuality, gay and lesbian identities, and homosexual behavior. In: Kaplan and Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 10th Edition, eds. B.J. Sadock, V.A. Sadock & P. Ruiz. Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer, pp. 1982-2013.

 

     Drescher, J. & Byne, W. (2017). Gender identity, gender variance and gender dysphoria. In: Kaplan and Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 10th Edition, eds. B.J. Sadock, V.A. Sadock & P. Ruiz. Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer, pp. 2023-2039.

 

     Drescher, J. (2018). Becoming a psychoanalyst. In: The Analyst’s Voice: Narratives on Developing a Psychoanalytic Identity, eds L. Hillman & T. Rosenblatt. New York, NY: Routledge, pp. 77-93.

 

     Drescher, J. & Fors, M. (2018). An appreciation and critique of PDM-2’s focus on minority stress through the case of Frank. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 35(3):357-362.

 

     Drescher, J. (2018). Asses making passes: Making meaning of unwanted sexual advances. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 54(4):665-676. 

 

     Drescher, J. (2019). Moving the conversation along: Preface to Section I. Homosexuality, Transsexuality, Psychoanalysis and Traditional Judaism, ed. A. Slomowitz & A. Feit. New York & London: Routledge, pp. 3-7.

    

     Drescher, J., Roberts, L.W. & Termuehlen, G. (2019). Treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender patients. In: Roberts, L.W. (Ed) American Psychiatric Press Textbook of Psychiatry, Seventh Edition. American Psychiatric Press, Washington, DC, pp. 1185-1212.