LGBTQ Committee

The Committee focuses on the intersection between LGBTQ+ issues and psychiatry

RECENT WORK

Psychology Today
It Is Now 50 Years Since Gay People Were “Cured"
Psychology Today
The Distortions Hindering Gender-Affirming Care
Psychiatric Times
Psychiatrists Call for End to Cruel and Harmful Immigration Policy
Psychiatric Times
Impact of COVID-19 Crisis on LGBTQ Youth
FOCUS - Volume 18, Issue 3
Psychotherapeutic Engagements With LGBTQ+ Patients and Their Families
The Journey of Nervous and Mental Disease
A Qualitative Investigation Into Faith and LGBTQ Identities in a Nonclinical Sample of Readers of the Dear Abby Column
Taylor and Francis Online
Religious Faith and Transgender Identities: The Dear Abby Project

OTHER WORK

COMMITTEE WEBSITE
LGBTQ+ Mental Health: A Curriculum for Psychiatry Residents
GAP REPORT
Faith Communities and the Well-Being of LGBT Youth
GAP REPORT
The Right Therapy for LGBT Youth
Journal of Medical Regulation
The Growing Regulation of Conversion Therapy
Committee on LGBTQ

Chair: Flavio Casoy and Joanne Ahola

GAP Fellow: Antoine Beayno

Current committee members: Stewart Adelson, Kenneth Ashley, Mary Barber, William Byne, Tiziano Colibazzi, Jack Drescher, Laura Erickson-Schroth, David Goldenberg, Kenneth Hung, David Lopez, Lorraine Lothwell, Marlin Mattson, Scot McAfee, Christopher McIntosh, Andy Tompkins, Alan Schwartz, Omar Fattal, Kelly Kleiner