Post date: Jul 31, 2011 7:59:7 AM
Dr. Richard Gartner has a doctorate in clinical psychology from Columbia University and he specializes in the treatment of sexually abused men. He is a psychoanalyst on the teaching faculty and supervises at the William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Institute in New York City . He is also a consultant and supervisor at the Trauma Treatment Center of the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis.
Dr. Gartner taught and supervised in the clinical psychology program at Columbia University for twenty years. He was the Founding Director of the White Institute's Sexual Abuse Program, and for six years was Director of its Center for the Study of Psychological Trauma.
From 2002-2004, Dr. Gartner was President of MaleSurvivor: National Organization against Sexual Victimization (www.malesurvivor.org) and continues to serve on its Board of Directors. He was Program Chair for its 2001 conference in New York, "Healing Sexual Victimization of Boys and Men."
Dr. Gartner is a member of the American Psychological Association, the New York State Psychological Association, the William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society, the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology, 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.
Dr. Gartner has authored numerous articles, chapters and books. His 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. (Several of Dr. Gartner's articles are reprinted on the "Writings" page of his website http://www.richardgartner.com/).