Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis
 

Richard B. Gartner, Ph.D.

BOOKS

Beyond Betrayal: Taking Charge of Your Life after Boyhood Sexual Abuse.  (2005, Wiley & Sons).

Betrayed as Boys: Psychodynamic Treatment of Sexually Abused Men, (1999, Guilford Press).  Featured: New Book Talk, Division 39 (Psychoanalysis), American Psychological Association, New York, April 1999 and American Psychological Association convention, Boston, August 1999.  Runner-up, 2001 Gradiva Award for Best Book on a Clinical Subject, National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP).

Editor, Memories of Sexual Betrayal: Truth, Fantasy, Repression, and Dissociation (1997, Jason Aronson).  Featured at New Book Talk at meeting of Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association, Denver, February 1997. Organized, chaired and moderated the 1995 White Institute conference on which the book is based. Based on this book, taught first online course offered for CPE credits in psychoanalysis, Sep-Nov 1996

ARTICLES and CHAPTERS

The Jewish men dancing inside me (in press).  Chapter in The Still Small Voice, M Holzman, Ed.  URJ Press

Failed "Fathers," boys betrayed (2007).  Chapter in Predatory Priests, Silenced Victims, M.G. Frawley-O’Dea and V. Goldner, Eds., Analytic Press

Predatory priests: Sexually abusing Fathers (2004).  Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 5:31-56

Contributor, Men & Masculinities: A Social, Cultural, and Historical Encyclopedia. M. Kimmel and A. Aronson, Eds., ABC-CLIO

Effects on boys of priest abuse (2002).  Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, 22:15-17

Coming to terms with sexual abuse (2002).  Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, 22:18.

Relational aftereffects in manhood of boyhood sexual abuse (1999). Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 29:319-353.

Sexual victimization of boys by men: Meanings and consequences (1999). Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy, 3:1-33.

Cinematic depictions of boyhood sexual victimization (1999). Gender and Psychoanalysis, 4:253-289.

On masculine strength, emotional detachment, and the praise of incest (1999). Gender and Psychoanalysis, 4: 307-316.

An analytic group for sexually abused men (1997), International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 47:373-383.  Originally presented as “Identifications and transferences in analytic group therapy for sexually abused men” at April, 1995 meeting of Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association, Santa Monica
Considerations in the psychoanalytic treatment of men who were sexually abused as children (1997).  Psychoanalytic Psychology, 14:13-41.  Originally presented at April, 1993, meeting of Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association, New York, and the July, 1993, International Conference of the Sandor Ferenczi Society, Budapest

Managing chronic loss and grief: Contrapuntal needs of an AIDS patient and his therapist (1997).  Chapter in Hope and Mortality: Psychodynamic Approaches to AIDS and HIV, M. Blechner, Ed., Analytic Press

Memories of sexual betrayal: Psychoanalytic perspectives on the debate (1997). Round Robin, Winter, 1997: 4-5, 16.

Incestuous boundary violations in families of borderline patients (1996). Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 32:73-80.  Originally presented at April, 1992, meeting of Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association, Philadelphia

The relationship between Interpersonal Psychoanalysis and Family Therapy (1995).  Chapter in Handbook of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis, M. Lionells, J. Fiscalini, C. Mann, and D. Stern, Eds., Analytic Press

Gartner, R.B., Bass, A., and Wolbert, S. (1979), The use of the one-way mirror in restructuring family boundaries, Family Therapy, 6:27-37

Gartner, R.B., Fulmer, R.H., Weinshel, M., and Goldklank, S. (1978), The family life cycle: Developmental crises and their structural impact on families in a community mental health center, Family Process, 17:47-58

MEDIA AND PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS

Full-length interview:: “A Conversation With Richard Gartner--Beyond Betrayal: Men Cope With Being the Victims,” by Claudia Dreifus, Science Times, New York Times, Mar 1, 2005, p. 5.

Interviews (among others): New York Times; Associated Press; Los Angeles Times; Washington Post; USA Today; The Nation;  Baltimore Sun; New York Newsday; Press of Atlantic City; Modesto (CA) Bee; CNN (Paula Zahn Now); CBS (The Early Show); Fox News (Geraldo at Large); NBC News Channel; MSNBC Cable; ABC.com; Cosmopolitan; Cosmo Girl; USA Radio Network (Daybreak USA); Liberty Broadcasting Network (D. Balart’s American Radio Journal); Cable Radio Network (The AM Show); WOR (The Joey Reynolds Show, carried nationally); WHYY (Philadelphia Public Radio); and Radio 702, Johannesburg (Jenny Crwys Williams Show)

“Protect Our Children: Teenage Boys and the Wall of Silence,” Emmy-nominated documentary presentation, WABC-TV, New York, April, 2004

Testimony, New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee, re: Charitable Immunity Act, Jan 20, 2004

Letter to the editor re: Carlos Santana’s boyhood sexual victimization, Rolling Stone, April, 2000

Sexual abuse of boys, letter to the editor, New York Times, July 2, 1998, p. A21

Gartner, R.B., and Goldman, D., with twenty-seven co-signers, A reply to Frederick Crews.  The New York Review of Books, Jan. 12, 1995, pp. 42-43

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS AND PAPERS

Betrayed as Boys: Boyhood Sexual Abuse.  Bergen County Division of Family Guidance Service Training, Hackensack, NJ.  May, 2007

Treating Sexually Abused Men Individually and in Groups. Workshop in series Aggression and Its Effects, Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society, New York City, January, 2007

Sexual Victimization of Boys: Meanings and Consequences. Psychiatric Grand Rounds, Brooklyn V.A. Hospital, March 2006 and October 2001

Relational impact of Boyhood Sexual Abuse and its Transference/Countertransference Implications, part of a course, Men Sexually Abused as Boys: Meanings, Consequences, and Treatment.  American Psychiatric Association Annual Conventions, San Francisco (2003) and Atlanta (2005).

Betrayed as Boys: Boyhood Sexual Abuse, Full day training workshop, Family Service Society, Corning, NY, March 2005

Dissociative Reenactments of Boyhood Sexual Betrayal, Keynote Address, Moving Dissociation into the Mainstream, 21st Fall Conference of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation (ISSD), New Orleans, November 2004

When Predatory Priests Become Sexually Abusive “Fathers”: Consequences for Victims, Keynote Address. Sexual Betrayal and Scandal in the Catholic Church: Psychoanalytic, Religious, and Social Perspectives, New York City, November 2004

Effects of Sexual Abuse on Children, invited address at the FBI’s Symposium on Online Sexual Victimization of Children, Leesburg, VA, June 2004

Transference and Countertransference with Offender/Survivors, at Broken Boys, Healing Men: A Conference on Male Sexual Victimization, The Men’s Project, Ottawa, Ontario, June 2004

Betrayed as Boys: Meanings and Consequences of Boyhood Sexual Abuse.  Presented at two-day conference “Understanding Boys and Men,” sponsored by Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Hospital.  Cambridge, MA, May 2003

Betrayed as Boys: Meanings and Consequences of Boyhood Sexual Abuse, full day workshop, Children's Center of Hamden, CT, May 2002. Also at the annual meeting of the Richmond County Psychological Association, NYC, May 2002, and the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, NYC, April 2003

Trauma and the Sexually Abused Boy or Man, presenter and panel moderator, Ninth Interdisciplinary Conference, National Organization on Male Sexual Victimization, New York, October 2001

Using the Therapist’s Internal Responses as a Guide in Work with Sexually Abused Men, workshop presentation, Ninth Interdisciplinary Conference (New York, 10/01) and tenth Conference (Minneapolis, 9/03), MaleSurvivor: National Organization against Male Sexual Victimization

Sexual Victimization of Boys and Men: Meanings, Consequences, and Treatment.  Full day workshop, Trauma Counseling Program, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, June 2000

Cinematic Depictions of Boyhood Sexual Victimization, paper delivered at the 11th International Forum of Psychoanalysis, May 2000, New York

Sexual Abuse of Boys: Meanings and Consequences.  Keynote address, annual meeting, New Jersey Clinical Psychologists in Private Practice, Livingston, NJ, May 2000

Gartner, R.B., and Lisak, D., Betrayed as Boys: Treating men with histories of childhood sexual abuse.  Full day workshop, Centre for the Treatment of Sexual Abuse and Childhood Trauma, Ottawa, April 2000

Gartner, R.B., and Morris, L. Treatment of Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse. Eighth Interdisciplinary Conference, National Organization on Male Sexual Victimization, Vancouver, October 1999

Gartner, R., and Mujica, E., Therapists’ Personal Reactions as Guides in Work with Sexually Abused Men.  Workshop at the Seventh Interdisciplinary Conference, National Organization on Male Sexual Victimization, San Francisco, September 1997; repeated at the Eighth Conference, Vancouver, October 1999

Treatment Considerations for Men Sexually Abused as Boys (1998-99).  Presentations made respectively at a joint meeting of the New Jersey chapter of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (NJ-ATSA) and the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children-New Jersey (APSAC-NJ); Psychiatric Grand Rounds at Mt. Sinai, Brookdale, and Gouverneur Hospitals; Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy; and Vassar College Counseling Service

Sexual Abuse of Boys: Meanings and Consequences , Colloquium Presentation, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program, William Alanson White Institute, March 1999
Gartner, R.B., Kershnar, S., and Singh, M.  Going Beneath the Surface: Sexual Abuse, Drug Use, and HIV.  Workshop at the National Harm Reduction Conference. Cleveland, October 1998

Gartner, R., Fradkin, H., and Castellana, M.  Male Sexual Victimization: Becoming Empowered to Take Another Step on the Road to Recovery.  Healing workshop at the National Organization on Male Sexual Victimization West Coast Retreat, Mt. Madonna, CA, September 1998, repeated at the Eighth Interdisciplinary Conference, National Organization on Male Sexual Victimization, Vancouver, October 1999

Sexually Abused Men: Crises about Gender Identity and Sexuality.  Workshop at the Conference of the National Organization for Men Against Sexism, August 1998, Stony Brook, NY

Sexually Traumatized Boys and Men.  Presentation at Oberlin College, April 1998
Traumatized Men’s Struggles about Masculinity.  Paper presented at the May 1996 meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, New York Chapter

The De-masculinization of Sexually Abused Men: Crises about Gender Identity and Sexuality.  Paper presented at April 1996 meeting of Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association, New York

The Sexually Abused Man and the Male Analyst.  Paper presented at August 1995 meeting of the American Psychological Association, under the auspices of Division 51 (Men and Masculinity), New York

Sexually Abused Men: Working with the Other Abused Population.  Workshop presented by the Learning Alliance and People Against Sexual Abuse, NYC, November 1995

Clinical Seminar in the Treatment of Sexually Abused Adults, Metropolitan Center for Mental Health, NYC, 1995

Gartner, R.B., and Trappe, K.,  Transference and Countertransference in the Treatment of Sexually Abused Men.  Workshop at the Sixth World Interdisciplinary Conference on Male Sexual Victimization, October1995, Columbus, OH

Discussant, “Dissociation and Enactment: Countertransference Considerations in Work with Adult Survivors of Abuse," by J.J.Marcuse.  Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, October 1994

Rage in the Transference and Countertransference When Treating Sexually Abused Adults.  Workshop given at “Women and Men: Experiences of Rage,” the Gloria Friedman Memorial Conference sponsored by the W.A.White Society, October 1994

When the Analyst and the Sexually Abused Patient Are Both Men.  Paper presented at April 1994 meeting of Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association, Washington

Couples and Family Therapy: Forgotten Offspring of Interpersonal Theory.  Paper read as part of panel "The Interpersonal Analyst and the Couple: How Does It Work?", W. A. White Society Special Interest Group Meeting, New York, 1993

Gartner, R.B., and Price, M., Group Treatment of Female and Male Survivors of Incest.  Workshop at November 1992 conference of Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society, New York

When the Patient Knows Not to Know.  Paper read at the Clinical Colloquium, Brooklyn Institute for Psychotherapy and Clinical Services Case Conference, White Institute, 1987
Gartner, R.B., Fulmer, R.H., Weinshel, M., Goldklank, S., and Bresnihan, W., A Retrospective Study of the Effect of Family Constellation on the Course of Family Therapy, Conference of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Boston, 1975