Upcoming appearances

March 17, 2008
Survivor/FBI Special Agent and Psychoanalyst/Advocate: Our Stories (Keynote Plenary Speaker Session)
and
Therapists' Internal Reactions as Guides in Work With Sexually Abused Men (Workshop)
Men of Courage: The First Provincial Conference on Male Sexual Victimization
Monday, March 17th and Tuesday, March 18th 2008
Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel
Toronto, Ontario
For information about this conference click here.

For more information about Richard Gartner's appearances or to speak with Dr. Gartner, please telephone:
212-533-0345 or write: 14 Fifth Avenue #G1 New York, New York 10011

Media/Appearances

Dr. Richard Gartner speaks in both professional and non-professional settings. In addition to his papers and addresses on male sexual victimization, he has been called on as an expert witness and has been widely quoted in the media.

Recent Appearances

October 25-28, 2007:
Survivor/FBI Special Agent and Psychoanalyst/Advocate: Our Stories (Full-Conference Featured Speaker Presentation) and Therapists' Internal Reactions as Guides in Work With Sexually Abused Men (Workshop Presentation)
Eleventh International Conference of MaleSurvivor: the National Organization against Male Sexual Victimization: “Relief, Recovery, and Restoration: Helping Men Heal from Sexual Abuse.”  John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York City

May 19, 2007
Betrayed as Boys: Boyhood Sexual Abuse
Bergen County Division of Family Guidance Service Training, Hackensack, NJ

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

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

March, 2006
The Shame of Male Sexual Abuse Victims
The Committee of Psychoanalytic and Psychotherapeutic Publications and Organizations 2006 Symposium: "On Shame"

Nov 18, 2005
Betrayed as Boys: Meanings and Consequences of Childhood Sexual Abuse for Men
Postgraduate Center for Mental Health
New York, New York

May, 25, 2005
Men Sexually Abused as Boys: Meanings, Consequences, and Treatment
Faculty member for full-day course, American Psychiatric Association Annual Convention, Atlanta, Georgia

March 18, 2005
Betrayed as Boys: Boyhood Sexual Abuse
Full day workshop, Family Service Society, Corning, New York

November 13, 2004:
When Predatory Priests Become Sexually Abusive “Fathers”: Consequences for Victims
This was a plenary address at the conference Sexual Betrayal and Scandal in the Catholic Church: Psychoanalytic, Religious, and Social Perspectives in New York City. This conference was co-sponsored by the William Alanson White Institute’s Sexual Abuse Program and the Trauma Treatment Center of the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis.

November 18, 2004:
Dissociative Reenactments of Boyhood Sexual Betrayal
Plenary address at “Moving Dissociation into the Mainstream,” the 21st Fall Conference of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation (ISSD) in New Orleans

June, 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.

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

January 26th, 2004
Testimony before the New Jersey Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Charitable Immunity Act. Click here to read the text of Dr. Gartner's statement before the Senate Subcommittee.

 

Media and Public Communications

PRINT: New York Times; Associated Press; Los Angeles Times; London Times; Washington Post; USA Today; The Nation; Baltimore Sun; New York Newsday; New York Review of Books; Rolling Stone; Bergen Record; Khaleej (Dubai) Times; Cleveland New Dealer; National Catholic Reporter; Houston Chronicle; Cosmopolitan; The Australian; Miami Herald; Seattle Post-Intelligencer; Salt Lake Tribune; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; Syracuse (NY) Post Standard; Press of Atlantic City; Modesto (CA) Bee; Decatur (AL) Daily; News Virginian; Ventura County (CA) Star; Wilkes-Barre Times Leader; Santa Fe New Mexican; Lawrence (KA) Journal-World; La Crosse, (WI) Tribune;  Myrtle Beach Sun News; Defiance (OH) Crescent-News; Sault Ste. Marie Star; North Bay (ON) Nugget; Cosmo Girl, and others.
RADIO, TELEVISION, CABLE, AND INTERNET: CNN (Paula Zahn Now); CBS (The Early Show); Fox News (Geraldo at Large); WABC TV-New York; NBC News Channel; MSNBC Cable; ABC.com; HealthyPlace.com; ThinkAndAsk.com; 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, five appearances); WHYY (Philadelphia Public Radio); Radio 702, Johannesburg (Jenny Crwys Williams Show), and others.

“Abuse Victims Viewed Differently,” Associated Press, October 21, 2007, by Robert Tanner, appeared throughout the United States and internationally.
Click to read the Associated Press article.

“Many still don't see women as sex predators: Boys can have trouble eliciting sympathy - when they're willing to come forward," Houston Chronicle, December 17, 2006, by Sarah Viren
Click to read Houston Chronicle article.

"Hot For Teacher", Cosmo Girl, September, 2006, by Jessica Dulong
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"They Deserve It", The Nation, July, 2006, by Dan Bell
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"The Age of Consent", Paula Zahn Now, CNN, January, 2006
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"Calls to sex abuse hotlines increase after scandal ", USA Today, June 19, 2002, by Janet Kornblum
Click here to read the USA Today article.

"Female Child Rapists Generate Less Outrage: Why Female Sex Offenders Generate So Much Less Outrage Than Males", ABC News
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"Center to offer group therapy for sexually abused men", Howard County Times, August 8, 2002, by Jennifer Vick
Click here to read the Howard County Times article.

"A Conversation With Richard Gartner, Beyond Betrayal: Men Cope With Being the Victims", The New York Times, March 1, 2005, by Claudia Dreifus
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"More Women Charged in Sex Cases", USA Today, November 30, 2005, by Wendy Koch
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"Hey Teacher Leave Those Kids Alone", The Australian, December 17, 2005, by Deborah Hope and Tracy Ong.
Click to read The Australian article.

"Boy Victims Loath to Tell of Sex Abuse by Women", The Cleveland Plain Dealer, January 1, 2006, by Karen Farkas
Click to read the Cleveland Plain Dealer article.

 

Past Presentations and Papers

Relational impact of boyhood sexual abuse and its transference/ countertransference implications, part of a half day course, Men Sexually Abused as Boys: Meanings, Consequences, and Treatment. American Psychiatric Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, May, 2003

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: Meanings and consequences. Psychiatric Grand Rounds, Brooklyn V.A. Hospital, October 5, 2001

Sexual victimization of boys and men: Meanings, consequences, and treatment. Full Day workshop, Trauma Counseling Program, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, June 9, 2000

Cinematic depictions of boyhood sexual victimization, paper delivered at the 11th International Forum of Psychoanalysis, May 6, 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 28, 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. (1997, 1999), 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 (March 1999), Colloquium Presentation, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program, William Alanson White Institute

Gartner, R.B., Kershnar, S., and Singh, M. (1998). Going Beneath the Surface: Sexual Abuse, Drug Use, and HIV. Workshop at the National Harm Reduction Conference. Cleveland, October

Gartner, R., Fradkin, H., and Castellana, M. (1998). 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, repeated at the Eighth Interdisciplinary Conference, National Organization on Male Sexual Victimization, Vancouver, October, 1999

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

Sexually Traumatized Boys and Men (1998). Presentation at Oberlin College, April

Traumatized Men’s Struggles about Masculinity (1996). Paper presented at the May 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 (1996). Paper presented at April meeting of Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association, New York

The Sexually Abused Man and the Male Analyst (1995). Paper presented at August 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 (1995). Workshop presented by the Learning Alliance and People Against Sexual Abuse, NYC, November

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

Gartner, R.B., and Trappe, K. (1995), Transference and Countertransference in the Treatment of Sexually Abused Men. Workshop at the Sixth World Interdisciplinary Conference on Male Sexual Victimization, October, 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 (1994). Workshop given at “Women and Men: Experiences of Rage,” the Gloria Friedman Memorial Conference sponsored by the W.A.White Society, October

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

Couples and Family Therapy: Forgotten Offspring of Interpersonal Theory (1993). 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

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

When the Patient Knows Not to Know (1987). Paper read at the Clinical Colloquium, Brooklyn Institute for Psychotherapy and Clinical Services Case Conference, White Institute

Gartner, R.B., Fulmer, R.H., Weinshel, M., Goldklank, S., and Bresnihan, W. (1975), A Retrospective Study of the Effect of Family Constellation on the Course of Family Therapy, Conference of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Boston