Understanding Male Sexual Abuse

A consultant and supervisor at the Trauma Treatment Center of the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, Dr. Gartner also taught and supervised in the clinical psychology program at Columbia University for twenty years. He received a B.A. in psychology from Haverford and a doctorate in clinical psychology from Columbia. He is licensed as a psychologist in New York State.

Dr. Gartner served on the Board of Directors of MaleSurvivor: the National Organization against Male Sexual Victimization and was its President from 2002-2004. He was Program Chair for its 2001 conference in New York, “Healing Sexual Victimization of Boys and Men.” Currently, he is the organization's media spokesman and also serves on the Program Committee for its upcoming 2007 conference, Relief, Recovery, and Restoration: Helping Men Heal from Sexual Abuse, to be held on October 25th-28th in New York City at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the conference co-sponsor.

Dr. Gartner is a member of the American Psychological Association, the William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society, the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology, the Leadership Council on Child Abuse and Interpersonal Violence, the International Society for the Study of Dissociation, PEN American Center, and MaleSurvivor. He is a licensed psychologist in New York State. He serves on the editorial boards of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, the Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, and the American Journal of Psychoanalysis.

Read Books by Dr. Gartner

Dr. Gartner’s books include Beyond Betrayal: Taking Charge of Your Life After Boyhood Sexual Abuse; Betrayed as Boys: Psychodynamic Treatment of Sexually Abused Men; and Memories of Sexual Betrayal: Truth, Fantasy, Repression and Dissociation. In addition, he has authored numerous articles and chapters including “Considerations in the psychoanalytic treatment of men who were sexually abused as children,” “Relational aftereffects in manhood of boyhood sexual abuse,” “Sexual victimization of boys by men: Meanings and consequences,” and “Incestuous Boundary Violations in Families of Borderline Patients.” (on the "Writings" page of this website, where you can also find out more information about his books).

Charting the Course of Recovery

Since 1992, Dr. Gartner has spoken and lectured widely about the sexual abuse of boys and its consequences for men in such diverse locations as the American Psychological and Psychiatric Associations, the Harvard University Medical School, the Sandor Ferenczi Society in Budapest, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and numerous universities, rape intervention programs, and hospitals. He has been featured and interviewed by varied media outlets including NBC News Channel, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Associated Press, USA Today, Cosmopolitan Magazine and radio stations in the United States, Canada, Australia, and South Africa. He was featured in the 2004 Emmy-nominated WABC-TV documentary “Protect Our Children: Teenage Boys and the Wall of Silence” and in 2005 was the subject of a full-length interview in the Science Times section of the New York Times. (Click here to read the New York Times interview.)