Ken Corbett, Ph.D.

Education

B.A. 1975, Northern Illinois
M.S. 1976, University of Wisconsin
Ph.D. 1989, Columbia University

Areas of Research/Interest

  • Gender and sexuality
  • Clinical technique
  • Developmental theory
  • Childhood

External Affiliations

· Member, New York Institute for the Humanities

Selected Publications

Boyhoods:  Rethinking Masculinities, Yale University Press, 2009.

"Gender Regulation," Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 46, 2010.

“Little Hans:  Masculinity Foretold,” Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 45, 101-132, 2009.

“Boyhood Femininity:  Gender Identity Disorder, Masculine Presuppositions, and the Anxiety of Regulation, “ Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 19, 353-370, 2009.

“Melancholia and the Violent Regulation of Gender Variance,” Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 19, 385-392, 2009.

“Gender Now,” Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 18, 838-836, 2008.

“Cracking In:  The Psychotherapeutic Action of Comedy,” Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 14, 457-474, 2004.

“War Game,” New York Times Magazine, October 7, 2001.

“Nontraditional Family Romance,” Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 43, 599-624, 2001.

“Sexuality/sexuality: Commentary on Case presented by Deborah Waxenberg,” Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2, 375-381, 2001.

“More Life: Centrality and Marginality in Human Development,” Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 11, 313-335, 2001.
Reprinted in:  Relational Psychoanalysis:  Innovation and Expansion, Vol. II, Aron, L, & Harris, A., Eds., 2004.

“Happy Play: Reply to Diana Fuss and Adam Phillips,” Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 11, 347-355, 2001.

“Faggot = Loser,” Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2, 3-27, 2001.
Reprinted in: Hating In The First Person Plural, Moss, D., Ed., Other Press:  New York, 2003.

“Toward the Coexistence of Effort and Lack: Commentary on Paper by Cynthia Dyess and Tim Dean,” Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 10, 775-786, 2000.

“Cross-Gendered Identifications and Homosexual Boyhood,” American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 68, 352-360 1998.

“Speaking Queer,” Gender and Psychoanalysis, 2, 495-514, 1997.

"It Is Time To Distinguish Gender From Health: Reflections on Lothstein's 'Pantyhose Fetishism and Self Cohesion: A Paraphilic Solution," Gender and Psychoanalysis, 2, 259-272, 1997.

"Homosexual Boyhood: Notes on Girlyboys," Gender and Psychoanalysis, 1, 429-462, 1996.
Reprinted in:  Sissies and Tomboys, Rottnek, M., Ed., New York University Press: New York, 1999.

"The Mystery of Homosexuality," Psychoanalytic Psychology, 10, 345-358, 1993.
Reprinted in:  Gender in Psychoanalytic Space, Dimen, M., & Goldner, V., Eds.,  Other Press:  New York, 2002.

"Between Fear and Fantasy," New York Times OpEd, Feb. 2, 1993, A23.