This section is about academic psychiatry, a medical speciality for doctors who can prescribe medications and perform medical procedures. There is also a section on academic psychology. For transition information please visit therapists specializing in gender issues.
Overview
Many people in our community have been helped by psychiatrists who worked with them to determine the best course of action for their unique transition needs. Psychiatry has also been used as a way to control and even harm our community, especially via disease models of gender identity and expression. One of the most controversial publications in psychiatry is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), which is published by the American Psychiatric Association.
At its worst, psychiatry has been misused in the academic exploitation of our community.
Psychiatrists covered here
- John Bancroft, former Kinsey Institute director
- Susan Bradley, prominent promoter of reparative therapy for our children
- Collette Chiland, promoted gatekeeping and disease models
- Peter Collins, created the disease “gynandromorphophilia“
- J. Paul Federoff, studies “paraphilic sexual disorders”
- Kurt Freund, developed the penile plethysmograph
- Richard Green, founded journal dedicated to “the prevention of transsexualism”
- Stephen B. Levine, wrote pathologizing textbook
- Scott Leibowitz, pediatric psychiatrist
- Paul McHugh, world-renowned critic of transgender people
- Jon K. Meyer, proposed closing Johns Hopkins gender clinic in 1979
- Walter J. Meyer III, former head of WPATH
- Richard Pillard, sought genetic markers for sexual orientation
- Richard R. Pleak, advocate for affirmative models of care for youth
- Vernon Rosario, advocate for affirmative models of care for youth
- Alan Sanders, sought genetic markers for sexual orientation
- Chester W. Schmidt, Jr., another Johns Hopkins gatekeeper
- Nathaniel Sharon, psychiatrist who is trans
- Betty Steiner, founded Clarke Institute gender clinic
- Thomas Szasz, leader of anti-psychiatry movement and critic of trans diagnoses
- Jack Turban, advocate for affirmative models of care for youth
- Thomas Wise, promoted pathologizing views of gender identity