Public Speaker

Regional—Grand Rounds Speaker

2025: “Ethical Issues in Treating LGBT Patients,” Saint Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, DC, May 28 (via Zoom)
2024: “Evolving Controversies in Treating Gender Dysphoric Youth,” Department of Psychiatry, SUNY Upstate, Syracuse, NY, June 6 (via Zoom)
2024: “Ethical Issues in Treating LGBTQ Patients,” Sheppard Pratt Health Systems, Baltimore, MD, May 22 (via Zoom)
2024: “Evolving Controversies in Treating Gender Dysphoric Youth,” Department of Psychiatry, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, March 14
2023: “Evolving Controversies in Treating Gender Dysphoric Youth,” Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, August 2, (via Zoom)
2023: “Ethical Issues in Treating LGBTQ Patients,” Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX, May 16 (via Zoom)
2023: “Evolving Controversies in Treating Gender Dysphoric Youth,” Department of Psychiatry, Garnet Health Medical Center, Middletown, NY, April 13 (via Zoom)
2023: “Evolving Controversies in Treating Gender Dysphoric Youth,” Department of Psychiatry, Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune Township, NJ, February 8 (via Zoom)2022: “Ethical Issues in Treating LGBTQ Patients,” Department of Psychiatry, Nassau University Medical Center, East Meadow, NY, September 21, (via Zoom)
2021: “Queer Diagnoses: Updates on Gender Diagnoses in the ICD-11 and the DSM-5,” Department of Psychiatry, George Washington University, Daniel S. Prager, MD Endowed Lecture in Psychoanalysis, Washington DC, December 2, (via Zoom)
2021: “Controversies in the Treatment of Transgender Minors,” Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital, Morris Plains, NJ, May 20, (via Zoom)
2021: “Controversies in the Treatment of Transgender Minors,” Department of Psychiatry, Elmhurst Hospital Center, Elmhurst, NY, February 17, (via Zoom)
2021: “Controversies in the Treatment of Transgender Minors,” Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, January 20, (via Zoom)
2020: “Ethical Issues in Treating LGBT Patients,” Department of Psychiatry, Brookdale Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, December 23 (via Zoom)
2020: “Controversies in the Treatment of Transgender Minors,” Department of Psychiatry, Department of Child Psychiatry, Yale Medical School, New Haven, CT, November 17 (via Zoom)
2020: “Controversies in the Treatment of Transgender Minors,” Department of Psychiatry, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, November 10 (via Zoom)
2020: “Controversies in the Treatment of Transgender Minors,” Department of Psychiatry, New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell), New York, NY, September 23 (via Zoom)
2020: “Controversies in the Treatment of Transgender Minors,” (Jointly sponsored by Division of Child Psychiatry, Albert Einstein-Montefiore and New York City Children’s Center, New York State Office of Mental Health), Bronx, NY, July 15 (via Zoom)
2020: “Ethical Issues in Treating LGBT Patients,” Department of Psychiatry, SUNY-Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, June 10 (via Zoom)
2020: “Ethical Issues in Treating LGBT Patients,” Department of Psychiatry, Queens Hospital Center, Jamaica Queens, NY, January 31
2018: “From Bisexuality to Intersexuality: Rethinking Gender Categories,” NY Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell), White Plains, NY, February 6
2017: “Queer Diagnoses: An Update on Gender Identity Diagnoses of the ICD-11 and the DSM-5,” Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ, November 15
2017: “Queer Diagnoses: An Update on Gender Identity Diagnoses of the ICD-11 and the DSM-5,” Metropolitan Hospital, New York, NY, October 27
2017: “Queer Diagnoses: An Update on Gender Identity Diagnoses of the ICD-11 and the DSM-5,” Silver Hill Hospital, New Canaan, CT, April 14
2017: “Queer Diagnoses: An Update on Gender Identity Diagnoses of the ICD-11 and the DSM-5,” Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai St. Luke’s-West, New York, NY, April 12
2017: “Queer Diagnoses: An Update on Gender Identity Diagnoses of the ICD-11 and the DSM-5,” Department of Psychiatry, Interfaith Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, March 21
2017: “Controversies in the Treatment of Transgender Minors,” Department of Psychiatry, Lenox Hill Hospital, March 16
2016: “Queer Diagnoses: An Update on Gender Identity Diagnoses of the ICD-11 and the DSM-5,” Department of Psychiatry, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, October 13
2016: “Ethical Issues in Treating LGBT Patients,” Department of Psychiatry, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, April 27
2016: “The Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Gay Patients,” McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, March 17
2015: “Sexual Conversion (‘Reparative) Therapies,” Department of Psychiatry, New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell), White Plains, NY, December 8
2015: “Sexual Conversion (‘Reparative) Therapies,” Department of Psychiatry, Rutgers Medical School, Newark, NJ, November 20
2015: “Sexual Conversion (‘Reparative) Therapies,” Department of Psychiatry, Brookdale Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, April 22
2015: “The Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Gay Patients,” Department of Psychiatry, VA Hudson Valley Health Care System, Montrose, NY, April 8
2014: “Controversies in Treating Transgender Children and Adolescents,” Department of Psychiatry, Tufts-Boston Medical Center, Boston MA, September 30
2014: “DSM-5 Update: Gender Dysphoria,” Flushing Hospital, Flushing, NY, March 5
2014: “The Treatment of Transgender Children and Adolescents,” New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell), White Plains, NY, February 11
2013: “DSM-5 Update: Gender Dysphoria,” Metropolitan Hospital, New York, NY, September 18
2013: “DSM-5 Update: Gender Dysphoria,” Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY, July 25
2013: “Queer Diagnoses: An Update on Gender Identity Diagnoses of the ICD-11 and the DSM-5,” Department of Psychiatry, Tufts-Boston Medical Center, Boston MA, April 26
2013: “The Treatment of Transgender Children and Adolescents,” Harry Stack Sullivan Award Lecturer, Sheppard-Pratt Health Systems, Baltimore, MD, March 6
2013: “Queer Diagnoses: An Update on Gender Identity Diagnoses of the ICD-11 and the DSM-5,” VA Hudson Valley Health Care System, Montrose, NY, January 9
2012: “Queer Diagnoses: Parallels and Contrasts in the History of Homosexuality, Gender Variance and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM),” Institute of Living, Hartford, CT, March 8
2012: “Queer Diagnoses: Parallels and Contrasts in the History of Homosexuality, Gender Variance and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM),” Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, February 1
2011: “The Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Gay Patients,” Elmhurst Medical Center, Elmhurst, NY, December 7
2011: “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Perspectives on Antihomosexual Attitudes,” Brooklyn VA Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, December 2
2011: “Homosexuality: A Clinical Primer,” Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, October 4
2011: “Queer Diagnoses: Parallels and Contrasts in the History of Homosexuality, Gender Variance and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM),” New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell), New York, NY, March 9
2011: “Queer Diagnoses: Parallels and Contrasts in the History of Homosexuality, Gender Variance and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM),” New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell), White Plains, NY, January 11
2010: “Queer Diagnoses: Parallels and Contrasts in the History of Homosexuality, Gender Variance and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM),” Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY, December 14
2010: When Politics Distorts Science,” Montefiore Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, Bronx, NY, February 11
2010: When Politics Distorts Science,” New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell), White Plains, NY, February 9
2009: “The Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Gay Patients,” Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY, March 31
2009: “The Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Gay Patients,” Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, March 16
2008: “Psychiatry and Homosexuality,” Harlem Hospital, New York NY, April 23
2008: “From Bisexuality to Intersexuality: Rethinking Gender Categories,” NY Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell), Department of Psychiatry, New York, NY, Feb 20
2008: “The Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Gay Patients,” NY Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell), White Plains, NY, February 19
2006: “From Bisexuality to Intersexuality: Rethinking Gender Categories,” Zucker Hillside Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Glen Oaks, NY, October 18
2006: “Ethical Issues in Sexual Conversion (‘Reparative’) Therapies,” St. Luke’s—Roosevelt Hospital Center, Department of Psychiatry, New York, June 21
2006: “From Bisexuality to Intersexuality: Rethinking Gender Categories,” Harvard Longwood Psychiatry, Cambridge, MA, March 7
2006: “Ethical Issues In Sexual Conversion (‘Reparative’) Therapies,” St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, New York, January 26
2006: “From Bisexuality to Intersexuality: Rethinking Gender Categories,” Brookdale Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, Brooklyn, NY, January 10
2005: “From Bisexuality to Intersexuality: Rethinking Gender Categories,” St. Luke’s—Roosevelt Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, New York, NY, Feb 23
2004: “From Bisexuality to Intersexuality: Rethinking Gender Categories,” Cabrini Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, New York, NY, October 8
2004: “Therapeutic Meanings of Antihomosexuality,” Rose Memorial Grand Rounds Speaker, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, March 25
2003: “From Bisexuality to Intersexuality: Rethinking Gender Categories,” Montefiore Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, Bronx, NY, January 9
2002: “Psychotherapy of a Dissociating Gay Patient”, St. Luke’s—Roosevelt Medical Center, New York, NY, November 13
2001: “Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man,” St. Joseph’s Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, Yonkers, NY, December 13
2000: “Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man,” Northwestern University Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, Chicago, IL, Oct 17
2000: “Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man,” Montefiore Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, Bronx, NY, September 14
2000: “Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man,” New York University Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, New York, NY, Jan 27
1999: “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: The Psychoanalytic Training Experience Between 1973-1991,” Panel Member, “Being Gay and Becoming a Psychoanalyst: 1967-1999,” Scientific Program Meeting of The Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine, New York, NY, December 7.
1999: “Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man,” SUNY-Downstate Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, Brooklyn, NY, December 1
1999: “Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man,” Gouverneur Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, New York, NY, June 10
1998: “Gay Patient, Gay Therapist,” Psychiatric Institute, Columbia Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, April 3
1998: “Holding or Fixing: Comparing the Models of Psychoanalytic Respect and Reparative Therapy of Homosexuality,” New York University Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, New York, NY, March 12
1998: “Holding or Fixing: Comparing the Models of Psychoanalytic Respect and Reparative Therapy of Homosexuality,” Beth Israel Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, New York, NY, February 12
1997: “Holding or Fixing: Comparing the Models of Psychoanalytic Respect and Reparative Therapy of Homosexuality,” Montefiore Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, Bronx, NY, September 17,
1997: “Holding or Fixing: Comparing the Models of Psychoanalytic Respect and Reparative Therapy of Homosexuality,” Bronx Lebanon Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, Bronx, NY, February 25

Regional—Hospital Lectures

2023: “A Bisexual Man’s Search for Identity,” The Menninger Clinic, Houston, TX, March 2
2022: “Controversies in Treating Transgender Children and Adolescents,” The Menninger Clinic, Houston Texas, June 17 (via Zoom)
2022: “Controversies in Treating Transgender Children and Adolescents,” Case Conference Consultant, Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, MA, January 25 (via Zoom)
2021: “Ethical Issues in Treating LGBT Patients,” The Menninger Clinic, Houston, TX, June 15 (via Zoom)
2013: “In-Service on LGBT Issues,” Invited Consultant, Silver Hill Hospital, New Canaan, CT, October 18

Regional—Professional Meetings

2025: , “Affirming Gender Dysphoric Youth: Making Sense of the Opposition,” LGBT Study Group of the William Alanson White Institute, New York, NY, March 5 (via Zoom)
2024: Invited Presenter, “Affirming Gender Dysphoric Youth: Making Sense of the Opposition,” Working Group on Gender, Columbia University Division of Gender, Sexuality and Health, New York, November 8 (via Zoom)
2024: “Evolving Controversies in Treating Gender Dysphoric Youth,” Psychoanalytic Inquiry’s Connections and Conversations Group, Los Angeles, CA, August 18 (via Zoom)
2023: “Evolving Controversies in Treating Gender Dysphoric Youth,” Fall Conference, Missouri Psychiatric Physicians Association, Columbia, MO, September 23 (via Zoom)
2023: “A Bisexual Man’s Search for Identity,” Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, Houston, TX, March 4
2023: “Ethical Issues in Treating LGBT Patients,” Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, Houston, TX, March 3-4
2023: “Evolving Controversies in Treating Gender Dysphoric Youth,” Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, Houston, TX, March 3
2023: “Developmental Narratives of Gay Men,” Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Westchester, NY, February 10 (via Zoom)
2022: “Evolving Controversies in Treating Gender Dysphoric Youth,” Hyman Fingert Lecture, Saint Louis Psychoanalytic Institute, St. Louis, MO, September 15 (via Zoom)
2021: “Controversies in Treating Transgender Children and Adolescents,” Contemporary Freudian Society, New York, NY, June 30 (via Zoom)
2020: “Branding Psychoanalysis,” Center for Public Mental Health, William A. White Institute, New York, NY, May 5 (via Zoom)
2020: “Controversies in Treating Transgender Children and Adolescents,” Yale Pediatrics Ethics Program, New Haven, CT, January 23
2020: “Controversies in Treating Transgender Children and Adolescents,” Columbia University, Division of Gender, Sexuality and Health, LGBT Health Series, New York, NY, January 7
2019: Panel Speaker, Panel entitled “A Roundtable Discussion on The History of Discrimination in Psychoanalysis against the LGBTQ+ Community,” New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New York, NY, December 6
2019: Invited Speaker, “Becoming a Psychoanalyst,” Voices in Neuroscience Journal Club, Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, NY, November 20,
2019: “Moving the Conversation Along,” Panel Speaker, Panel entitled “Jewish, Orthodox and LGBTQ: Moving the Clinical Conversations Forward and Avoiding Collateral Damage,” Clinical Education Meeting, William A. White Institute, New York, NY, November 12
2019: “Treating LGBT Patients: Ethical, Historical & Clinical Perspectives,” Invited Speaker, Weill Cornell Medical Diversity Week, New York, NY, April 23
2019: “Queer Diagnoses: A History of Gender Diagnoses in the DSM and ICD,” Chair and Speaker, Panel entitled “The Rocky Road to Removing Gender Dysphoria from DSM-5,” Columbia University, Division of Gender, Sexuality, and Health, Working Group on Gender, New York, NY, March 15
2019: “Asses Making Passes: Making Meaning of Unwanted Sexual Advances,” Invited Speaker, LGBT Study Group, William A. White Institute, New York, NY, March 6
2018: “Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis: From the Preoedipal to the Postmodern,” Institute for Psychoanalytic Education Affiliated with New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, October 29
2018: “A Bisexual Man’s Search for Identity,” Columbia University, Division of Gender, Sexuality and Health, LGBT Health Series, New York, NY, September 18
2018: “Out of DSM: Depathologizing Homosexuality,” Workshop on “The Historical Foundation of Sexual Illnesses, and How It Is Reflected in DSM and in Treatment Modalities,” New York State Psychological Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY, June 1
2018: “Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis: From the Preoedipal to the Postmodern,” Columbia University, Division of Gender, Sexuality and Health, LGBT Health Series, New York, NY, April 3
2018: “Asses Making Passes: Making Meaning of Unwanted Sexual Advances,” Panel Speaker, Panel on “Defining Consent,” Conference on “Sex, Power & Consent: Can We Talk?,” William A. White Institute, New York, NY, March 24
2017: “Queer Diagnoses: An Update on the Gender Identity Diagnoses of the ICD-11 and the DSM-5,“ Invited Speaker, Training Institute for Mental Health, New York, NY, November 17
2017: “Diagnosing Gender: Gender Diagnoses of the ICD-11 and the DSM-5,” Panel Speaker, “Beyond the Binary of Sex: Psychoanalytic Explorations of Multiple Sexualities,” Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine, New York, NY, October 3
2013: “Hierarchies of Suffering,” Panel Speaker, Panel on “The Traumatic Field: Psychoanalytic Growth and the Growth of Psychoanalysis,” William A. White Institute Conference, “Unknowable, Unspeakable and Unsprung: Navigating the Thrill and Danger of Living Amidst Truth, Fantasy and Privacy,” New York, NY, October 5
2013: “Queer Diagnoses: Update on the Gender Diagnoses of the ICD-11,” Columbia University, Division of Gender, Sexuality and Health, LGBT Health Series, New York, NY, January 18

Regional—Featured Speaker

2025: “Clinical Work with Transgender and Gender-Diverse Patients,” meeting of the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Society on “Sociocultural and Clinical Dimensions of Being Transgender and Doing Clinical Work with Trans and Gender-Diverse Individuals,” St. Louis, MO, October 18, (via Zoom)
2024: “Evolving Controversies in Treating Gender Dysphoric Youth,” Summit Center, Walnut Creek, CA, July 26
2024: “Evolving Controversies in Treating Gender Dysphoric Youth,” Dallas Psychoanalytic Center, Dallas, TX, January 27
2024: “From Bisexuality to Intersexuaity: Rethinking Gender Categories,” Dallas Psychoanalytic Center, Dallas, TX, January 27
2023: “Evolving Controversies in Treating Gender Dysphoric Youth,” Adolescent Upheaval Program, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program, William Alanson White Institute, New York, NY, May 8 (via Zoom)
2022: “Evolving Controversies in Treating Gender Dysphoric Youth,” Center for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy of New Jersey, Teaneck, NJ, December 11 (via Zoom)
2022: “Ethical Issues in Treating LGBTQ+ Patients,” Center for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy of New Jersey, Teaneck, NJ, December 11 (via Zoom)
2022: “Evolving Controversies in Treating Gender Dysphoric Youth,” LGBT Study Group, William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Institute, New York, NY, October 12 (via Zoom)
2022: “Controversies in Treating Transgender Minors,” University of Michigan Center for Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship, Ann Arbor, MI, January 21 (via Zoom)
2021: “From Bisexuality to Intersexuality: Rethinking Gender Categories,” Atlanta Psychoanalytic Society, Atlanta, GA, December 11 (via Zoom)
2021: “From Bisexuality to Intersexuality: Rethinking Gender Categories,” Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, New York, NY, December 3 (via Zoom)
2021: “Controversies in Treating Transgender Minors,” Interpersonal Track, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New York, NY, October 3 (via Zoom)
2021: “Psychoanalysis, Sex and Gender in the 21^st Century,” Featured Speaker, Two-Day Meeting including a Case Conference with Psychoanalytic Candidates and 3 Formal Presentations, Oregon Psychoanalytic Center, Portland, OR, May 7-8,
2021: Visiting Professor Lecture Series, Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute, April 5-10—Included six formal paper presentations and four case conferences as visiting consultant in various locations throughout southeastern Michigan (via Zoom).
2021: “COVID-Sorting: Navigating Intimacy and Risk,” Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA), Yale Medical School, Community Conversation Series, New Haven, CT, March 25 (via Zoom)
2021: “Controversies in Treating Transgender Minors,” W.A. White Institute LGBT Study Group, New York, NY, January 6 (via Zoom)
2020: “Queer Diagnoses: A History of Diagnosing Homosexuality and Gender Variance,” Keynote Speaker, Conference on “Gender 2020: Psychoanalysis Adjusts Its Vision,” Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, Chicago, IL, March 6
2019: “Ethical Issues in Treating LGBT Patients,” Plenary Speaker, Conference on “Psychotherapy and LGBT Identities: Historical, Clinical and Ethical Issues,” Washington School of Psychiatry, Washington, DC, November 16
2019: “Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis: From the Preoedipal to the Postmodern,” Plenary Speaker, Conference on “Psychotherapy and LGBT Identities: Historical, Clinical and Ethical Issues,” Washington School of Psychiatry, Washington, DC, November 16
2017: “Becoming an Analyst,” Clinical Education Meeting, William A. White Institute, New York, NY, October 24
2017: “Controversies in Treating Transgender Minors,” Lighthouse LGBT Network, New York, NY, October 2
2017: “Ethical Issues in Treating LGBT Patients,” Plenary Speaker, Conference on “Embracing Frontiers in the Continuum of Psychiatric Care,” sponsored by South Carolina Psychiatric Society and the South Carolina Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Charleston, SC, January 29
2016: Keynote Speaker, Conference on “Queering Psychoanalysis: Working with Modern-Day Sexuality and Gender, William Alanson White Institute, October 22
2016: “Ethical Issues in Treating LGBT Patients,” Conference on Treating LGBT Patients: Ethical Issues, Gender Dysphoria & Mental Health, Maryland Psychiatric Society, Baltimore, MD, April 30
2016: “From Bisexuality to Intersexuality: Rethinking Gender Categories,” Western Massachusetts and Albany Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology, Stockbridge, MA, NV, March 5
2013: “The Psychology of the Closet,” Friday Night Guest Lecturer, Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, MA, September 6
2009: “Treating the GLBT Patient: Rendering the Invisible Visible,” Keynote Speaker, “Addressing GLBT Issues in the Medical School Curriculum,” Conference presented by the New York Medical College GLBT Task Force, May 5
2007: “Etiological Theories of Homosexuality and Their Clinical Relevance,” Scientific Colloquium, Louis Psychoanalytic Society, St. Louis, MO, January 26

Regional—Invited Discussant

2024: Invited Discussant of research papers, conference on “Parenting Diversity: Assisted Reproduction & Family Dynamics,” Center for Attachment Research, The New School, New York, NY, September 28
2018: “Where Have All the Butch Lesbians Gone? Identity, Gender and Sexuality in Today’s Adolescents,” Discussant of Susan Vaughan, MD, Columbia University, Division of Gender, Sexuality and Health, LGBT Health Series, New York, NY, March 6
2013: “Who’s on First? What’s on Second?: Categories, Hierarchies And Sexual Theorists, ” Discussant of Ray O’Neill’s “’Wilde Psychoanalysis: Homosexuali-tease’: Freud and Wilde,” Fordham University, New York, NY, January 18
2000: Discussion of Elizabeth Young-Bruehl’s “Are Human Beings <by Nature> Bisexual?,” Moderator & Panel Member, William Alanson White Society Scientific Colloquium, New York, NY, December 1

Regional—Panel Speaker

2026: “May You Live in Interesting Times: Some Irreverent Reflections on Psychoanalytic Grandiosity,” Panel entitled “Approach with Irreverence: Psychoanalysis, Gender & Sexuality,” William Alanson White Institute, New York, NY, December 16
2025: “Current Intrusions into the Analytic Space of LGBTQ Patients: The Convergence of the Clinical and the Political,” Panel Speaker, Panel on “Current Intrusions into the Analytic Space: The Convergence of the Clinical and the Political,” 53^rd Annual Postdoc Weekend, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Briarcliff Manor, NY, October 25
2025: “Affirming Gender Dysphoric Youth: Reflections on the Opposition,” Panel Speaker, Panel entitled “Transgender Clinicians Speak: Reflections from Training, Patient Care, and Professional Practice,” meeting of the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Society on “Sociocultural and Clinical Dimensions of Being Transgender and Doing Clinical Work with Trans and Gender-Diverse Individuals,” St. Louis, MO, October 18, (via Zoom)
2025: “May You Live in Interesting Times,” Moderator & Panel Member, Panel entitled “ Approach with Irreverence: Psychoanalysis, Gender & Sexuality,” Conference on “Psychoanalysis and Irreverence,” William Alanson White Institute, New York, NY May 31
2023: “Evolving Controversies in Treating Gender Dysphoric Youth,” Panel Speaker, Working Group on Gender (WGG), Division of Gender, Sexuality and Health, Columbia University Department of Psychiatry, New York, NY, May 12 (via Zoom)
2021: Panelist, discussion of PBS Documentary “Cured,” Mount Sinai Medical Student Stonewall Alliance, New York, NY, September 30 (via Zoom)
2021: “An Overview of the DSM-5-TR (Text Revision) Process with a Focus on the Chapter on Gender Dysphoria,” Moderator & Panel Member, Working Group on Gender (WGG), Division of Gender, Sexuality & Health, Columbia University Department of Psychiatry, New York, NY, May 14 (via Zoom)
2020: “Psychoanalysis and Queer Theory,” Panel Speaker, Panel on “Gender, Language and Psychoanalytic Practice: Past, Present and Future?”, Conference on “Gender 2020: Psychoanalysis Adjusts Its Vision,” Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, Chicago, IL, March 7
2017: Panel on “A Dialogue for and Against Early Transitioning with Gender Non-Conforming and Transgender Children,” Conference on “Out of the Closets and in Your Face: Becoming Effective with LGBT Patients,” LGBT Task Force, New York State Psychological Association, New York, NY, October 29

Regional—Moderator

2024: Moderator, “Creating Space for Difference: Talking and Listening While Maintaining a Community of Care,” Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute, New York, NY, May 7 (Hybrid)
2024: Moderator, “Creating Space for Difference: Talking and Listening While Maintaining a Community of Care with the Dartmouth Approach—Part 2,” Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New York University & the Psychoanalytic Society of the Postdoctoral Program, New York, NY, May 5, (Hybrid)
2023: Moderator, “Creating Space for Difference: Creating Space for Difference: Talking and Listening While Maintaining a Community of Care with the Dartmouth Approach,” Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New York University & the Psychoanalytic Society of the Postdoctoral Program, December 17 (via Zoom)
2021: Moderator, Ruth Shim’s “Social Injustice and Mental Health,” William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society, New York, NY, January 17 (via Zoom)
2020: Moderator, Eli Zaretsky’s “Mass Psychology Today,” William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society, New York, NY, November 13 (via Zoom)
2020: Moderator, z “Formulating Black Rage: Surviving Latent and Manifest Destructiveness in Othering,” William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society, New York, NY, October 30 (via Zoom)
2020: Moderator, Panel on “Gender Identity: What’s Sex Got to Do with It?,” New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, New York, NY, October 13 (via Zoom)
2019: Moderator, Panel on “Is Hypersexuality a Useful Concept?,” Conference entitled, “Fourth Annual LGBT Conference: Putting on the Brakes or Going Wild,” Co-sponsored by New York State Psychological Association and Westchester Center for Psychological Education, New York, NY, November 10

National—Invited Keynote/Plenary Speaker

2023: “Employing Blogs, Op-Eds and Other Media for Public Mental Health Education—The Group for Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP) Experience,” American College of Psychiatrists, New Orleans, LA, February 21
2023: “Evolving Controversies in Treating Gender Dysphoric Youth,” Distinguished Psychiatrist Lecture, Annual Meeting of American Psychiatric Association, San Francisco, CA, May 21
2023: “Ethical Issues in Treating LGBTQ Patients,” American College of Psychiatrists, Tucson, AZ, February 22
2022: “Ethical Issues in Treating LGBTQ Patients,” American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting Online, June 10 (via Zoom)
2022: “Ethical Issues in Treating LGBTQ Patients,” General Session, Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, New Orleans, LA, May 22
2021: “Conversion Therapy in America: A History,” on occasion of Netflix release of documentary film, “Pray Away,” Medical Student Pride Alliance, October 14 (Via Zoom).
2021: “Conversation with A Distinguished Analyst: Dr. Jack Drescher “A History Of Homosexuality And Psychoanalysis: From The Theoretical To The Personal,” American Psychoanalytic Association, February 27 (Via Zoom).
2019: “Controversies in the Treatment of Transgender Children and Adolescents,” Plenary Speaker, Group for Advancement of Psychiatry, White Plains, NY, November 8.
2019: “Controversies in the Treatment of Transgender Children and Adolescents,” Plenary Speaker, Psychiatric Congress, San Diego, CA, October 5.
2017: “Controversies in the Treatment of Transgender Minors,” Plenary Speaker, Annual Meeting of The American College of Psychiatrists, Scottsdale, AZ, February 22.
2016: “Transgender 101,” Keynote, Symposium 2016, “Sexuality and Its Discontents,” New York, NY, March 26
2016: “Gender Dysphoria,” Plenary, 21st National Psychopharmacology Update, Nevada Psychiatric Association, Las Vegas, NV, February 13, 2016
2015: “Can the Psychoanalysis of the Future Bring Anything to Sex and Gender Studies?”, Plenary, American Association of Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work, National Conference on “The Art of Listening,” Durham, NC, March 15
2011: “When Politics Distorts Science,” Plenary, Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, White Plains, NY, November 11
2011: “GID in the DSM-5: An Update,” Plenary, Stanley Biber Memorial Lecture, Annual Meeting of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, Atlanta, GA, September 24
2010: “Queer Diagnoses: Homosexuality, Gender Variance, and theDiagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM),” Plenary, Stanley Biber Memorial Lecture, Annual Meeting of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, San Diego, CA, September 25
2010:“Gender Variance or Gender Identity Disorder: A DSM-5 Controversy,” Invited Speaker, Life Members Meeting, Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, New Orleans, LA, May 25
2009: “When Politics Distorts Science,” Distinguished Psychiatrist Lecture, Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, San Francisco, CA, May 19
2009: “Issues of Marriage Equality,” Plenary, American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry Annual Conference, New York, NY, March 15
2007: “When Politics Distorts Science,” Plenary Speaker, Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, 25^th Annual Conference, San Juan, PR, September 29
2007:“Ethical Issues in Sexual Conversion (‘Reparative’) Therapies,” Plenary, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Physicians Assistants, Philadelphia, PA, May 29
2007:“Etiological Theories of Homosexuality and Their Clinical Relevance,” Plenary, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Physicians Assistants, Philadelphia, PA, May 29
2006:“Ethical Issues in Sexual Conversion (‘Reparative’) Therapies,” Plenary, 25^th Annual Conference, Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, San Francisco, CA, October 13
2006: “Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis: From the Preoedipal to the Postmodern,” Plenary, Presidential Lecture, 50^th Annual Meeting, American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry, Toronto, ON, CA, May 19
2003: “Gay and Lesbian Adolescents,” Plenary, American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry, New York, NY, March 28
2000: “Ethical Concerns Raised When Patients Seek to Change Same-Sex Attractions,” Pre-circulated paper, Fall Meeting 2000, American Psychoanalytic Association, New York, NY, December 17
2000: “Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man,” Plenary Speaker, American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry, New York, NY, April 25
2000: “Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man,” Meet the Author, American Academy of Psychoanalysis, New York, NY, January 7

National—Panel Speaker

2025: “Finding Mentorship: From Colleagues to Formal Arrangements,” Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Los Angeles, CA, May 20
2025: “The Treatment of Gender Dysphoric Youth: Historical, Clinical and Political Perspectives,” Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Los Angeles, CA, May 19
2025: “The Uncanny Experience of Weighing In,” Panel Speaker, Committee on Public Information Sponsored Professional Development Workshop: “Psychoanalysis in the Public Eye,” Annual Meeting of American Psychoanalytic Association, San Francisco, CA, February 6
2024: “Public Mental Health Education: Panel Discussion,” Panel Speaker, American College of Psychiatrists, New Orleans, LA, February 21
2024: “Not in Kansas Anymore: How to Engage Analytically Outside the Consulting Room,” Panel Speaker, Committee on Public Information Sponsored Professional Development Workshop, Annual Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association, New York, NY, February 8
2023: “APsA & LGBTQ+: A Relative Newcomer’s Experience,” Panel Speaker, Virtual Spring Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association, June 11 (via Zoom)2024: “Not in Kansas Anymore: How to Engage Analytically Outside the Consulting Room,” Panel Speaker, Committee on Public Information Sponsored Professional Development Workshop, Annual Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association, New York, NY, February 82023: “APsA & LGBTQ+: A Relative Newcomer’s Experience,” Panel Speaker, Virtual Spring Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association, June 11 (via Zoom)
2023: “Evolving Controversies in Treating Gender Dysphoric Youth,” Panel Speaker, Annual Meeting of American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis, San Francisco, CA, May 20
2022: “Counseling Parents with Transgender Children,” Panel discussant in general session addressing “Common Sexual Concerns in Patients,” Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, New Orleans, LA, May 25
2022: “A Revolutionary in Psychiatry: Dr. Roger Peele,” Panel discussing documentary film about Dr. Peele’s contributions to American psychiatry, Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, New Orleans, LA, May 21
2021: “Controversies in Treating Transgender Children and Adolescents,” Panel addressing Joint Session of American Psychiatric Association’s Committee on Psychiatry and the Law and Committee on Judicial Action, September 23 (via Zoom)
2021: “Experiencing the Members List,” Panel on the APsaA Listserv, American Psychoanalytic Association, September 18 (via Zoom)
2021: “The History of LGBT Inclusion in the American Psychiatric Association, Town Hall on “Increasing LGBTQ+ Equity in AAPL,” American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, June 24 (via Zoom)
2021: “’Religious Liberty’ Laws & LGBT Civil Rights,” Scientific Session on “Health Policy and LGBTQ Mental Health,” American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, May 2 (via Zoom)
2020: “Issues Arising in Psychotherapy with LGBT Patients,” Panel entitled “Focusing on Psychotherapy for LGBTQ Patients and Mental Health Care for LGBTQ Veterans,” AGLP, The Association of LGBTQ+ Psychiatrists, November 15 (via Zoom)
2020: “Communications Workshop for Psychoanalytic Activists,” Committee on Public Information, American Psychoanalytic Association, October 17 (via Zoom)
2020: “Understanding Queer Theory,” Committee Sponsored Workshop on Practice Building, Winter Meeting of American Psychoanalytic Association, New York, NY, February 15
2019: “Becoming a Media Spokesperson: Media Training 101,” Featured Speaker, Professional Development Workshop, Winter Meeting of American Psychoanalytic Association, New York, NY, February 6
2018: “Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity,” Panel Speaker, Symposium on “Reshuffling the Deck: Revising Sexual and Gender Diagnoses in ICD-11,” Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, New York, NY, May 7
2018: “Dr. H Anonymous and the Legacy of John E. Fryer, MD,” Fryer Award Lecture, Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, New York, NY, May 5
2017: “Promoting Your Psychoanalytic Practice,” Featured Speaker, Professional Development Workshop, Winter Meeting of American Psychoanalytic Association, New York, NY, January 18
2016: “Conflicting Subjectivities and Self-Interests of the Patient and Analyst,” Presenter, Discussion Group, Winter Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association, New York, NY, January 14
2015: “Out of DSM: Depathologizing Homosexuality”
Invited Speaker, Panel on “Social and Cultural Constructions of Psychopathology,” Annual Meeting of American Psychopathological Association, New York, NY, March 6
2014: “LGBT Advocacy/Activism in Professional Organizations,” Invited Panel Speaker, LGBT Health Workforce Conference, New York, NY, May 2
2013: “From Gender Identity Disorders to Gender Incongruence; From Mental Disorder to Something Else: Proposed Revisions to the ICD-11,” Speaker, Scientific Symposium on “Sexual Disorders and Sexual Health in the ICD-11: Parallels and Contrasts With DSM-5,” Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, San Francisco, CA, May 21
2013: “Can the Psychoanalysis of the Future Bring Anything to Sex and Gender Studies?”, Invited Speaker, Steering Committee Invited Panel on “Psychoanalysis: A Look into the Future,” Annual Meeting of Division 39 (Division of Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA April 28
2012: “The Politics of Sexual Science: A Gay Psychiatrist’s Report from the Trenches of the Culture Wars,” Panel Speaker, Symposium on “Psychiatrists as Activists: On Being Part of the Solution,” Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Philadelphia, PA, May 7
2011: “How APA’s 1973 Decision to Remove Homosexuality from the DSM Contributed to Today’s Culture Wars about Marriage Equality,” Panel Speaker, Symposium on “Mental Health and Legal Perspectives of Same-sex Civil Marriage in the United States,” Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Honolulu, HI, May 18
2010: “Queer Diagnoses: Homosexuality, Gender Variance, and theDiagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM),” Panel Member, Symposium: “Gender Identity Disorder and the DSM-5: An Update,” Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York, NY, October 30
2010:“Talking to the Media: Teaching Psychiatrists to Embrace the Sound Bite,” Panel Speaker, Symposium on “Psychiatrists in the World: Advocating for LGBT Mental Health,” Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, New Orleans, LA, May 25
2010:“The Group for Advancement of Psychiatry On-Line Curriculum on LGBT Mental Health,” Panel Speaker, Symposium on “Psychiatrists in the World: Advocating for LGBT Mental Health,” Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, New Orleans, LA, May 25
2008: “When Politics Distorts Science,” Panel Member, “’The Gay Agenda’: The Intersection of Mental Health and Public Policy,” AGLP Annual Symposium, Washington DC, May 3
2007:“Ethical Issues in Sexual Conversion (‘Reparative’) Therapies,” Panel Member, “Ethics, Human Rights and Dynamic,” jointly sponsored by American Psychiatric Association and American Academy of Psychoanalysis, San Diego, CA, May 21
2006:“Ethical Issues in Sexual Conversion (‘Reparative’) Therapies,” Invited Panel Member, “Meeting the Needs of our Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Patients and their Families,” American Medical Association, Chicago, IL, June 12
2006: “Can I Change? A Journey through Ex-Gay Ministries and Beyond,” Panel Member, Issue Workshop, Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Toronto, ON, CA, May 25
2006: “Can We Talk? A Model for Constructive Conversation between Opponents and Advocates of Same Sex Relationships,” Panel Member, Component Workshop, Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Toronto, ON, CA, May 23
2006: “Gay and Lesbian Families: What Kinds of Trauma Do They Experience because They Cannot Marry,” Invited Panel Member, Workshop of the Committee on Gay and Lesbian Issues, American Psychoanalytic Association, New York, NY, January 19
2005: “Challenges When Psychiatrists Seek Treatment for Themselves,” Panel Member, Issues Workshop, Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Atlanta, GA, May 26
2005: “I Do, But I Can’t: Mental Health Issues Around Gay Marriage,” Panel Member, Component Workshop, Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Atlanta, GA, May 23
2005: “’Fixing Frank’: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Psychotherapy with Gay Men,” Panel Member, Media Workshop, Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Atlanta, GA, May 23
2004: “Judd Marmor, Psychiatry and Homosexuality,” Panel Member, “The Academy Honors the Life and Work of Judd Marmor, MD,” American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry, New York, NY, May 2
2004: “Teaching Evidence-Based Psychotherapies,” Panel Member, American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry, New York, NY, April 30
2003: “Ethical Concerns Raised When Patients Seek to Change Same-Sex Attractions,” Panel Member, “Research and Clinical Report on Reparative Therapy,” Trembling Before G-d: Orthodox Mental Health Conference on Homosexuality, New York, NY, November 10
2002: “Mental Health Issues in the Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender Community,” Panel Member, APA Review Of Psychiatry Presentation, Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Philadelphia, PA, May 23
2002: “The Terrorist Crisis of 2001: Use and Impact of Electronic Communication,” Panel Member, Component Workshop, Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Philadelphia, PA, May 21
2001: “Ethical Concerns Raised When Patients Seek to Change Same-Sex Attractions,” Panel Member, Symposium on “Clinical Issues and Ethical Concerns Regarding Attempts to Change Sexual Orientation: An Update,” Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, New Orleans, LA, May 9
2001: “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: The Psychoanalytic Training Experience between 1973 and 1991,” Panel Member, “Being Gay and Becoming a Psychoanalyst: Across Three Generations, 90th Annual Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association, New Orleans, LA, May 5
2000: “The Consulting Room as Playspace: Psychotherapy with a Bipolar Patient,” Panel Member, “How to Make Dynamic Psychotherapy Work,” American Psychiatric Association 52nd Institute on Psychiatric Services, Philadelphia, PA, October 28
1998: “What Needs Changing: Some Questions Raised by Reparative Therapy Practices,” Panel Member, “Psychoanalysis, Sexuality and Politics,” American Academy of Psychoanalysis, New York, NY, January 11
1998: “The Analyst’s Authority and the Patient’s Sexuality,” Panel Member, “Homosexuality: Study of Gay and Lesbian Lives–Implications for Psychoanalysis,” American Academy of Psychoanalysis, New York, NY, January 9
1996: “Across the Great Divide: Gender Panic in the Psychoanalytic Dyad,” Panel Member, “Gay and Lesbian Issues,” American Academy of Psychoanalysis, New York, NY, May 5
1995: “Psychoanalytic Subjectivity and Male Homosexuality,” Panel Member, “Psychoanalysis and Homosexuality: A Contemporary View,” American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Boston, Ma, December 10
1995: “Dissociation in The Psychotherapy Of Gay Men,” Panel Member, “Clinical Approaches to Dissociation,” Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association, American Psychological Association, Santa Monica, CA, April 30
1995: “Medication, Psychotherapy and Belief,” Panel Member, “Psychopharmacology and Psychotherapy: Toward Integration,” Division 39, American Psychological Association, Santa Monica, CA, April 29
1994: “Contemporary Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Gay Men,” Panel Member, Scientific Symposium, “Gay and Lesbian Patients: New Psychoanalytic Perspectives,” joint session of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and APA, Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Philadelphia, PA, May
1994: “Addressing Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Issues at the District Branch Level,” Panel Member, Component Workshop Presentation of the Southern California Psychiatric Society’s Committee on Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Issues, Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Philadelphia, PA, May
1993: “Psychoanalytic Attitudes toward Homosexuality,” Original Paper Presentation, Panel Member, “Anti-Homosexual Bias in Psychiatry,” American Academy of Psychoanalysis, New York, NY, December
1993: “Psychosocial Aspects of AIDS,” Panel Member, “Optometric Concerns with the Diagnosis and Treatment of the AIDS Patient,” American Academy of Optometry, Boston, MA, December
1990: “Therapist Bias in The Clinical Setting,” Panel Member, Component Workshop Presentation, Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, New York, NY, May
1989-1990: “The District Branch Newsletter: Educating the Membership about Aids,” Panel Member, Component Workshop Presentation, Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, New York, NY, May, 1990 and San Francisco, CA, May, 1989
1989: “Internalized Homophobia in the Psychotherapy of a Gay Man,” Panel Member, American Academy of Psychoanalysis, San Francisco, CA, May

National—Invited Discussant

2021: “Understanding Gender: How Psychoanalysis is Grappling with Societies’ New Gender Norms,” Discussant, Special Session, Annual Meeting of American Psychoanalytic Association, February 13 (via Zoom)
2019: “Masculinity: Rethinking Gender Categories,” Invited Speaker, Discussion Group, Annual Meeting of American Psychoanalytic Association, New York, NY, February 6
2017: “Ethical Issues in Treating LGBT Patients,” Interest Group, Annual Meeting of The American College of Psychiatrists, Scottsdale, AZ, February 23
2015: “First, Do No Harm: Historical, Ethical, and Legal Perspectives on Sexual Orientation Change Efforts (SOCE),” Scientific Symposium, American Psychiatric Association Institute for Psychiatric Services, New York, NY, October 11
2014: “Paper Session,” Discussant, Annual Meeting, American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry, New York, NY, May 3
2009: “Managing Self-Disclosure in Psychotherapy,” Invited Consultant, “Clinical Pearls,” American Psychiatric Association Institute for Psychiatric Services, New York, NY, October 9
2005: “Sex and Death in the Age of Aids: A Psychoanalytic Exploration,” Invited Panel Member, Film Discussion of “The Gift,” National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis, New York, NY, September 25
2003: “Intersex Conditions: Controversies and New Approaches to Treatment,” Panel Member, Component Workshop, Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, San Francisco, CA, May 21
2003: “Counseling Committed Couples: Rethinking Therapeutic Neutrality,” Panel Member, Issues Workshop, Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, San Francisco, CA, May 21
2003: “Beyond Coming Out: LGBT Mental Health across the Lifespan,” Conference Discussant, Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, May 17
2004: “Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis: New Directions,” Conference Summary, Conference jointly sponsored by Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists, St. Luke’s—Roosevelt Medical Center, The Haworth Press, William Alanson White Institute, New York, NY, May 1

National—Moderator

2025: “Transgender Psychiatrists Speak: Reflections from Training, Patient Care and Professional Practice,” Plenary Panel, Group for Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP), White Plains, NY, November 7
2021: “Re-Branding Psychoanalysis: Correcting the Public’s Misunderstandings,” Workshop of the Committee on Public Information, Annual meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association, February 21 (via Zoom)
2021: “Focusing on Sex and Relationships in the LGBTQ Community and Inpatient Considerations for LGBTQ Patients,” AGLP, The Association of LGBTQ+ Psychiatrists, January 10 (via Zoom)
2020: Co-Chair, Professional Development Workshop 2: “How to Talk about Psychoanalytic Treatment and More Importantly, How Not To.” Winter meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association, New York, NY, February 13
2020: Co-Chair, Professional Development Workshop 1: “Blog or Podcast? Do both.” Winter meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association, New York, NY, February 12
2018: “Reshuffling the Deck: Revising Sexual and Gender Diagnoses in ICD-11,” Co-Chair, Scientific Symposium, Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, New York, NY, May 7
2014: “Controversies in the Treatment of Transgender Children and Adolescents,” Co-Chair, Scientific Symposium, Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, New York, NY, May 5
2009: “‘In or Out?’: A Discussion about Gender Identity Diagnoses and the DSM,” Co-Chair, Scientific Symposium, Annual Meeting of APA, San Francisco, CA, May 18
2006: “A Research Agenda for DSM-V: Mental Health in the Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Populations,” Co-Chair, Component Workshop, Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Toronto, ON, CA, May 24
2004: “Gay and Lesbian Orthodox Jews: A Primer for Clinicians,” Chair, Scientific Symposium, Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, New York, NY, May 5
2003: “Daddy and Papa: A Psychosocial Profile of Gay Parenting,” Chair, Component Workshop, Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, San Francisco, CA, May 22
2003: “Recent Developments in Gay and Lesbian Mental Health: A Global Perspective,” Co-Chair, Scientific Symposium, Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, San Francisco, CA, May 20
2003: “Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders: Questions for DSM-V,” Co-Chair, Scientific Symposium, Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, San Francisco, CA, May 19
2002: “It’s Not Gay Enough: Interpreting Antigay Bias in the 21st Century,” Chair, Component Workshop, Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Philadelphia, PA, May 23
2001: “Psychiatric Views on Talking about Homosexuality to Kids,” Chair, Component Workshop, Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, New Orleans, LA, May 7
1995: “Perspectives on Relations between Lesbians and Gay Men,” Co-Chair, Component Workshop, Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Miami FL, May 23
1994: “What’s So Scary about Homosexuality?”, Chair, Panel Presentation, 12th Annual Symposium, American Association of Physicians for Human Rights, New York, NY, September 3
1994: “What’s So Scary about Homosexuality?”, Chair, Component Workshop Presentation, Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Philadelphia, PA, May
1993: “Our Patients, Ourselves,” Chair, Component Workshop Presentation, Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, San Francisco, CA, May
1992: “Resident Survival Strategies for the 1990s,” Chair, Component Workshop Presentation, Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Washington, DC, May
1991: “Clinical Work with Lesbian and Gay Patients,” Chair, Component Workshop Presentation, Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, New Orleans, LA, May

National—Seminar

2025: “From Bisexuality to Intersexuality: Rethinking Gender Categories, Seminar sponsored by Council for Leadership and Organizational Studies (CLOS) of the Department of Psychoanalytic Education (DPE), American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA), in collaboration with the International Psychoanalytical Association, December 4 (via Zoom)
2025: “LGBTQ Advocacy in an Age of Misinformation,” Interest Group, American College of Psychiatrists, Kaua’i, Hawaii, February 21
2023: “Ethical Issues in Treating LGBT Patients—Further Clinical Considerations,” Interest Group, American College of Psychiatrists, Tucson, AZ, February 24
2014: “Controversies and Techniques in Treating Transgender Children and Adolescents,” Invited Teacher, Pre-Conference Continuing Education Master Class, Annual Meeting of Division 39 of the American Psychological Association, New York, NY, April 23
2006: “The Psychology of the Closet,” Discussion Group Leader, Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Toronto, ON, CA, May 22
2006: “History of Sexual Conversion Therapies,” AGLP Expert Training Program on Critiquing Sexual Conversion Therapies, Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists, Toronto, ON, CA, May 21
2005:“Ethical Issues in Sexual Conversion (‘Reparative’) Therapies,” Panel Member, “Special Populations,” American Psychiatric Association Ethics Committee Training Program, Washington DC, November 10
2000: “Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man,” Invited Lecturer, American Psychiatric Association 52nd Institute on Psychiatric Services, Philadelphia, PA, October 28

International—Invited Keynote/Plenary Speaker

2025: Invited Lecturer, “Le Diagnosi Queer: Aggiornamento delle diagnosi di genere in ICD-11 e DSM-5-TR” (“Queer Diagnoses: Update on the Gender Diagnoses in ICD-11 and DSM-5-TR”), Department of Psychiatry, Università degli Studi di Foggia, Foggia, Italy, May 9 (via Zoom)
2025: Invited Lecturer, “Queer Diagnoses: Update on Gender Diagnoses of the ICD-11 and DSM-5-TR,” International Academy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, International Russian Language Program with simultaneous translation, March 22 (via Zoom)
2025: Invited Lecturer, “From Bisexuality to Intersexuality: Rethinking Gender Categories,” International Academy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, International Russian Language Program with simultaneous translation, March 15 (via Zoom)
2025: Invited Lecturer, “Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis: From the PreOedipal to the Postmodern,” International Academy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, International Russian Language Program with simultaneous translation, March 8 (via Zoom)
2024: Keynote Speaker, “Le Diagnosi Queer: Aggiornamento delle diagnosi di genere in ICD-11 e DSM-5-TR” (“Queer Diagnoses: Update on the Gender Diagnoses in ICD-11 and DSM-5-TR”), Conference entitled “Inside Queer: International POP Meeting,” sponsored by Azienda Sanitaria Locale della provincia di Barletta-Andria-Trani and UOC Centro di Salute Mentale Barletta, Barletta (Puglia), Italy, October 29 (delivered in Italian)
2024: “Teorie e paradigm in psicoanalisi: identità di genere e orientamenti sessuali” (“Theories and Paradigms in Psychoanalysis: Gender Identity and Sexual Orientations”), Istituto Erich Fromm, Bologna, Italy, October 20 (delivered in Italian)
2024: “Ethical Issues in Treating LGBTQ Patients,” Invited Speaker, DIALOG Therapy Center, Warsaw, Poland, September 20
2024: “I ragazzi stanno bene?: L’evoluzione delle controversie sulla presa in carico dei giovani con Disforia di Genere” (Are the Kids Alright? Evolution of Controversies in Treating Gender Dysphoric Youth), Plenary Speaker, Conference “Identità e varianze di genere in età evolutive: Trasformazione sociali e psicoterapia” (Gender Identity and Variance in Development: Social and Psychotherapy Transformations), Accademia di Psicoterapia delle Famiglie, Rome, Italy, July 5 (via Zoom, delivered in Italian)
2023: “I ragazzi stanno bene?: Disforia/Incongruenza di Genere nei Minorenni alla luce dei SOC8” (Are the Kids Alright? Gender Dysphoria/Incongruence in Minors in Light of SOC8), Lezione Magistrale (Plenary Speaker), International Congress on “Standard of Care 8: Stato dell’arte e future prospettive per la presa in carico delle persone Transgender/Gender-Diverse (SOC8: State of the Art and Future Prospectives Regarding the Care of Transgender/Gender Diverse People), Sponsored by WPATH and ONIG, Napoli (Naples), Italy, December 1 (delivered in Italian)
2023: “L’evoluzione delle controversie sulla presa in carico dei giovani con Disforia di Genere (Evolution of Controversies in Treating Gender Dysphoric Youth),” Invited Speaker, “VII Coloquio Internacional: Trans Identidades, Genero y Cultura,” (7^th International Colloquium: Trans Identities, Gender and Culture,)” Center for Sex Education (CENESEX), Havana, Cuba, May 6 (delivered in Italian)
2023: “Developmental Narratives of Gay Men,” Invited Speaker, Master Speaker Series, International Psychotherapy Institute, Washington, DC, April 28 (via Zoom)
2023: “L’evoluzione delle controversie sulla presa in carico dei giovani con Disforia di Genere (Evolution of Controversies in Treating Gender Dysphoric Youth),” Conference on “Incongruenza di genere: Un viaggio tra Identità, famiglia e società (Gender Incongruence: A Voyage between Identity, Family and Society),” Sponsored by Regione Campania, ASLNapoli3Sud, Napoli (Naples), Italy, March 30 (via Zoom, delivered in Italian)
2022: “Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis: From the PreOedipal to the Postmodern,” Invited Speaker, Psychoanalytical Wednesdays, Teheran, Iran, December 1 (via Zoom)
2022: “Update on Gender Diagnoses of the ICD-11 and the DSM-a5-TR,” Convegno Internazionale Sessuologia (International Conference on Sexology), Sponsored by Psicologia.io-GiuntiPsy, Firenze, Italy, November 10 (via Zoom, delivered in Italian)
2022: “L’evoluzione delle controversie sulla presa in carico dei giovani con Disforia di Genere (Evolution of Controversies in Treating Gender Dysphoric Youth),” Lezione Magistrale (Plenary Speaker), International Congress on “Salute e Benessere delle Persone Transgender e Gender Diverse: Buone Prassi e Nuove Prospecttive (The Health and Wellbeing of Transgender and Gender Diverse People: Good Practices and New Perspectives),” Sponsored by Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, ONIG and SINAPSI, Napoli (Naples), Italy, October 21 (delivered in Italian)
2022: “Disforia di genere: Attualità e prospettive” (Gender dysphoria: Current events and controversies), Plenary Speaker, Conference on “Identità transgender e promozione della salute” (Transgender Identity and Promoting Health), Azienda Sanitaria Locale (AUSL) di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy, May 18 (via Zoom, delivered in Italian)
2022: “Controversies in Treating Transgender Children and Adolescents,” Public Lecture, Programa Transitando, Instituto Psiquiátrico José Horwitz Barak, Santiago, Chile, May 5 (via Zoom—viewable online at https://bit.ly/3ApHlXh)
2022: “The Search for a Sexual Identity: A Clinical Case Presentation,” Invited Speaker, International Psychotherapy Institute, Washington, DC, March 4 (via Zoom)
2022: “Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis: From the PreOedipal to the Postmodern,” Invited Speaker, Department of Psychology, Durham University, Durham, UK, February 25 (via Zoom)
2022: “Transgender Terminology and a History of Gender Diagnoses,” Invited Speaker, 21st Shanghai International Congress on Plastic & Aesthetic Surgery and 11th Forum on Plastic & Aesthetic Surgery, sponsored by Zhang Di-Sheng’s (Ti-sheng Chang) Plastic Surgery Development Foundation and co-organized by Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital, Shanghai, China, June 12 (Zoom recording February 12)
2022: “Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis: From the PreOedipal to the Postmodern,” Invited Speaker, International Psychotherapy Institute, Washington, DC, January 28 (via Zoom)
2021: “Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis: From the PreOedipal to the Postmodern,” Plenary Address, Conference on “Sexual Diversity and Psychoanalysis: Acknowledging the Past and Looking to the Future,” British Psychoanalytic Council, London, UK, November 6
2021: “Controversies in Treating Transgender Children and Adolescents,” Public Lecture, Conference on “Sexual Diversity and Psychoanalysis: Acknowledging the Past and Looking to the Future,” British Psychoanalytic Council, London, UK, November 5
2021: “Controversies in Treating Transgender Children and Adolescents,” Invited Speaker, Shenzhen Alumni Organization (Graduate Society of the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance—CAPA), Shenzhen, China, October 22 (via Zoom)
2021: “Controversies in Treating Transgender Children and Adolescents,” Invited Speaker, l’Osservatorio Nazionale sull’Identità di Genere (ONIG), Rome, Italy, September 24, 2021 (via Zoom, delivered in Italian)
2021: “Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis: From the PreOedipal to the Postmodern,” Invited Speaker, Shenzhen Alumni Organization (Graduate Society of the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance—CAPA), Shenzhen, China, June 18 (via Zoom)
2021: “Ethical Issues in Treating LGBT Patients,” Invited Speaker, Shenzhen Alumni Organization (Graduate Society of the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance—CAPA), Shenzhen, China, April 23 (via Zoom)
2020: “A Bisexual Man’s Search for Identity,” Invited Speaker, Shenzhen Alumni Organization (Graduate Society of the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance—CAPA), Shenzhen, China, September 25 (via Zoom)
2018: “Queer Diagnoses: An Update on Gender Diagnoses of the ICD-11 and DSM-5,” Plenary Speaker, “Transgender Matters: International Conference on Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Populations,” Naples, Italy, October 20 (delivered in Italian)
2018: “Queer Diagnoses: An Update on Gender Diagnoses of the ICD-11 and DSM-5,” Invited Speaker, Istituto Italiano di Sessuologia Integrata, Florence, Italy, October 14 (delivered in Italian)
2018: “Controversies in Treating Transgender Children and Adolescents,” Invited Speaker, Istituto Italiano di Sessuologia Integrata, Florence, Italy, October 14 (delivered in Italian)
2018: “Ethical Issues in Treating LGBT Patients,” Invited Speaker, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil, April 19
2018: “Queer Diagnoses: “An Update on Gender Diagnoses of the ICD-11 and DSM-5,” Invited Speaker, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil, April 17
2018: “Queer Diagnoses: “An Update on Gender Diagnoses of the ICD-11 and DSM-5,” Invited Speaker, Psychology Department, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PCURS), Porto Alegre, Brazil, April 16
2017: “A History of the American Psychiatric Association’s Organizational Responses to Homosexuality and Gender Variance,” Invited Keynote, International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations, New York, NY, October 28
2016: “Homosexuality & Psychoanalysis: From PreOedipal to Postmodern,” Plenary speaker, Conference on “Sexualidade(s) Oblíqua(s)” [Oblique Sexualities], sponsored by Associação Portuguesa Psicoterapia Psicanalítica, Lisbon, Portugal, November 25
2016: “History, Science and Politics of Homosexuality,” Plenary speaker, conference on “Science and Theology in Human Sexuality,” Co-Sponsored by St. John’s College, Durham University and Royal College of Psychiatrists, Durham, UK, September 19
2014: “L’identità di genere nel DSM-5 e nel ICD-11, con particolare riferimento alle controversie relative ai minori con varianza di genere” (Gender Identity in DSM-5 And ICD-11 with Particular Reference to the Controversies Surrounding Gender Variant Minors), Plenary, Conference on “Minori con varianza di genere: buone prassi e dilemma” (Gender Variant Minors: Best Practices and Dilemmas), Jointly Sponsored by Avvocatura per i Diritti LGBTI—Rete Lenford, SInAPSi—Centro di Ateneo Federico II, and ONIG—Osservatorio Nazionale sull’Identità di Genere, Napoli, Italy, October 17 (delivered in Italian)
2012: “Queer Diagnoses: An Update on the Gender Identity Diagnoses of the ICD-11 and the DSM-5,” Keynote, “Therapolitics”: Mutual Influence of the Therapeutic Process and Social Processes within the LGBT Community, Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, October 16
2011: “Queer Diagnoses: Homosexuality, Gender Variance, and theDiagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM),” Plenary, Conference on “Les catégories psychiatriques et leurs effets: Enjeux de la révision du DSM-5 et de la CIM-11 (Psychiatric Diagnoses and their Effects: Issues around the Revision of DSM-5 and ICD-11),” Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, March 18
2011: “Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis: From the Preoedipal to the Postmodern,” Toronto Psychoanalytic Society, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 21
2011: “Queer Diagnoses: Homosexuality, Gender Variance, and theDiagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM),” Invited Speaker, Association des Médecins Gays (Gay Medical Association), Paris, France, March 13
2010:“Antihomosexual Attitudes: A Psychoanalytic Perspective,” Plenary, International Conference on “Homophobia: Attitudes, Prejudices and Intervention Strategies,” Napoli, Italy, October 18 (delivered in Italian)
2010: “Transgenderism and Psychiatric Diagnosis,” Keynote, Conference on Gender and Sexuality, SEXPO, Helsinki, Finland, March 12
2009: “Ethical Issues in Sexual Conversion Therapies,” Plenary, International Conference on Homosexuality and Psychotherapy Facoltà di Psicologia, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome Italy, November 7 (delivered in Italian)
2003: “From Bisexuality to Intersexuality: Rethinking Gender Categories,” Plenary, Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI), New York, NY, May 2
2000: “Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man,” Plenary, Joint Meeting of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Organizzazione di Psicoanalisti Italiani—Federazione e Registro (OPIFER), Sestri Levante, Italy, June 24 (delivered in Italian)

International—Panel Speaker

2025: “Current Intrusions into the Analytic Space of LGBTQ Patients: The Convergence of the Clinical and the Political,” Panel Speaker, XXI Joint International Conference on “Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Practice Today: Training, Treatment and Transmission,” jointly sponsored by OPIFER (Organizzazione di Psicoanalisti Italiani Federazione e Registro) and the American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis, Firenze, Italy, October 26 (via Zoom)
2025: “Lost in Communication: How to Think about It,” Discussion of IPA Journal Club, 54^th International Psychoanalytical Association Congress, Lisbon, Portugal, August 2
2025: “Sexual and Gender Diversity: Countertransference and Psychoanalytic Concepts as Rooting or Uprooting Factors,” Case Discussant, 54^th International Psychoanalytical Association Congress, Lisbon, Portugal, July 29
2024: “Affirming Gender Dysphoric Youth: Reflections on the Opposition,” Panel on “Psychotherapy, Gender and Sexual Orientation,” Conference on “Questioni di Genere e Orientamento Sessuale: Nuove Prospettive in Psicoanalisi e in Psicoterapia Psicodinamica (Questions about Gender and Sexual Orientation: New Perspectives in Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy), jointly sponsored by OPIFER (Organizzazione di Psicoanalisti Italiani Federazione e Registro) and the American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis, Firenze, Italy, October 12 (via Zoom)
2024: “Affirming Gender Dysphoric Youth: Reflections on the Opposition,” Panel on “Cross-border perspectives between Clinical Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Social Aspects and LGBTQ+ Issues: Theoretical Progress, Controversies and Interventions,” XXIV Congresso Nazionale Sezione di Psicologia Clinica e Dinamica, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Salerno, Italy, September 12 (via Zoom, delivered in Italian)
2024: “Tavola rotonda. I diversi modelli di Carriera alias e il quadro normativo italiano sul diritto all’identità di genere” (“Round Table: Different models for adopting trans identities and the normative Italian framework on the rights to a gender identity”). Conference on “DISTORTƏ: L’impatto della disinformazione sulla vita delle persone LGBTQIA+” (Distortioni: The Impact of Disinformation on the Lives of LGBTQIA+ People,” sponsored by GayNet Italia Gay Network, Roma, Italy, April 6 (via prerecorded video, delivered in Italian)
2023: “Prejudice & the History of the Homosexuality Diagnosis: From the Preoedipal to the Postmodern,” Panel on “Gender Diversity and Reproductive Justice: Connecting the Dots,” jointly sponsored by Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis of the International Psychoanalytical Association, Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis & Contemporary Freudian Society, October 24 (via Zoom)
2023: “Così come sei: i trattamenti di conversione e le persone LGBTQIA+, la situazione in Italia e all’estero,” [“Just as you are: conversion treatments and LGBTQIA+ people, the situation in Italy and abroad”], Invited speaker on history of conversion therapy in the US, panel sponsored by Gaynet-Italia Gay Network, Roma, Italy, June 7 (via Zoom, delivered in Italian),
2022: “Counseling Parents with Gender Dysphoric Children, Invited Panel Speaker, Panel on “Communicating Diagnosis and Uncertainty,” Annual Meeting of International Neuroethical Society, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, November 3 (via Zoom)
2022: “Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis: From the PreOedipal to the PostModern,” Invited Panel Speaker, Panel on “Diversidad Sexual (Sexual Diversity),” LXII Congreso Nactional de Asociación Psicoanalítica Mexicana: Género en la Línea de Fuego (Gender in the Line of Fire), Mexico City, Mexico, October 20 (via Zoom)
2022: “Sexual Conversion Therapies,” Invited Panel Speaker, Panel on “Converting Our Understanding Towards Inclusive Care: An LGBTQIA+ Mental Health Program,” Sponsored by United Nations NGO Committee on Mental Health, June 16 (via Zoom)
2022: “Stonewall Uprising: 50 Years Later—Emerging Challenges for LGBTQ+ Communities around the World,” Invited Panel Speaker, Panel on “Stonewall Uprising: 50 Years Later—Emerging Challenges for LGBTQ+ Communities around the World,” Online Presentation of Special Issue of Journal of Community and Applied Psychology, February 24 (via Zoom).2021: “Gay Parenting,” Panel Discussant, International Psychoanalytical Association Webinar, December 3 (via Zoom); online at https://bit.ly/3Ju2Ecx
2021: “Can the Psychoanalysis of the Future Bring Anything to Sex and Gender Studies?”, Panel Discussant, Conference on Gender Violence and Trauma: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Joint Meeting of American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry (AAPDP) and Organizzazione di Psicoanalisti Italiani Federazione e Registro (OPIFER), Firenze, Italy, October 24 (via Zoom)
2021: “ICD-11 Revisions Relevant to the Health and Mental Health of LGBTQ Populations,” Panel on “Beyond the Binary: LGBTQIA+ Mental Health and Policy,” Sponsored by the United Nations NGO Committee on Mental Health, June 10 (via Zoom)
2020: “L’omogenitorialità: Nei contesti culturali della religione, della politica e della scienza.” (“Gay Parenting in the cultural contexts of religion, politics and science.” Invited Speaker, Two-Day Conference on “Genitori come gli altri: Uno sguardo ampio sulla L’omogenitorialità” (“Parents like all the others: A broad look at gay parenting”), Co-sponsored by Spazio IRIS (Istituto di Ricerca e Intervento per la Salute) and Società Italiana di Psicoanalisi della Relazione, November 21 (via Zoom, delivered in Italian)
2019: “Queer Diagnoses: A History of Gender Diagnoses in the DSM and ICD,” Invited Speaker, Panel entitled “The Rocky Road to Removing Gender Dysphoria from DSM-5,” Coming Out New York: International Transgender Conference, New York, NY, November 1
2013: “Theorizing Homosexuality: What Does It All Mean?”, Invited Panel Member, Scientific Symposium on “Sexual Diversity, Genes and Environment,” Annual Meeting of the Netherlands Psychiatric Association, Maastricht, April 12
2013: “Can Sexual Orientation be Changed?”, Invited Panel Member, “Selling the Promise of Change: International Health and Policy Consequences of Sexual Orientation Change Efforts (SOCE),” Sponsored by The NGO Committee on Human Rights & The NGO Committee on HIV/AIDS, United Nations Church Center, New York, NY, January 31
2012: “Gay Mainstream and Alternative Styles: Variations on Therapeutic Approaches in Patients Who Wish to Examine Their Orientation,” Invited Panel Member, Discussion of sexual conversion therapies, Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, October 16
2012: “Shamed Bodies, Unsettled Genders,” Discussant, Panel Session, 10^th Anniversary Conference: The Legacy of Stephen Mitchell
International Association of Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New York, NY, March 3
2011: “The Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Gay Patients,” Invited Panel Speaker, Panel on “Treatment of LGBT Patients,” Toronto Psychoanalytic Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 22
2009: “The Status of Sexual Conversion Therapies in the United States,” Invited Panel Speaker, Symposium on “Therapies that Claim to Change Sexual Orientation: Historical and Current Perspectives,” Annual Meeting of Royal College of Psychiatrists, Liverpool, UK, June 3
2007: “From Bisexuality to Intersexuality: Rethinking Gender Categories,” Panel Member, “From Preoedipal to Postmodern: Gender & Sexuality,” International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Athens, Greece, July 6
2000: “Attending to Sexual Compulsivity in a Gay Man,” Panel Member, “Sex, Drugs and Homosexuality,” Congres International du Jubile, Fedération Française de Psychiatrie, Paris, France, June 28
2000: “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: The Psychoanalytic Training Experience between 1973 and 1991,” Panel Member “The Value of Homosexuality in Psychoanalysis,” Eleventh International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Brooklyn, NY, May 6

International—Invited Discussant

2025: “Loneliness, Memory, Recognition of Otherness: A Psychoanalytic Analysis of the Film ‘All of Us Strangers,’” film discussant, 54^th International Psychoanalytical Association Congress, Lisbon, Portugal, August 1
2023: IPI Special Topic—Discussion of “Cured” documentary, International Psychotherapy Institute, Washington DC, November 13, (via Zoom)
2011: “Should We Extend or Restrict the Concept of Addiction?”, Invited Discussant, Conference on “Les catégories psychiatriques et leurs effets: Enjeux de la révision du DSM-5 et de la CIM-11 (Psychiatric diagnoses and their effects: Issues around the Revision of DSM-5 and ICD-11)”, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, March 18
2002: “Discussion of Two Clinical Presentations,” Conference on “Sexuality: Yours, Mine and Ours,” International Association of Relational Psychoanalysts and Psychotherapists, New York, NY, November 22
1999: “Discussion of ‘Negative Affects in Borderline Patients,” USA and Italy: Reciprocal Influences in Psychoanalysis: In the Footsteps of Silvano Arieti, Joint Meeting of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Organizzazione di Psicoanalisti Italiani–Federazione e Registro (OPIFER), Venice, Italy, November 3

International—Moderator

2025: Moderator, IPA Journal Club featuring Diana Diamond, PhD & Frank Yeomens, MD, International Psychoanalytical Association, June 13 (via Zoom);
2025: Moderator, IPA Journal Club featuring Deborah Cabaniss, MD & Shirin Ali, MD, International Psychoanalytical Association, April 11 (via Zoom)
2025: Moderator, IPA Journal Club featuring Salman Akhtar, MD, International Psychoanalytical Association, March 14 (via Zoom)
2025: Moderator, IPA Journal Club featuring Donnel B. Stern, PhD, International Psychoanalytical Association, January 17 (via Zoom)
2024: Moderator, IPA Journal Club featuring Dorothy Evans Holmes, PhD, International Psychoanalytical Association, December 13 (via Zoom)
2024: Moderator, IPA Journal Club featuring Tarek El-Ariss, PhD, International Psychoanalytical Association, September 13 (via Zoom)
2024: Moderator, IPA Journal Club featuring Emily Kuriloff, PsyD, International Psychoanalytical Association, June 14 (via Zoom)
2024: Moderator, IPA Journal Club featuring Anthony Bass, PhD, International Psychoanalytical Association, April 12 (via Zoom)
2024: Moderator, IPA Journal Club featuring Danielle Knafo, PhD, International Psychoanalytical Association, March 8 (via Zoom)
2024: Moderator, IPA Journal Club featuring Beverly J. Stoute, MD, International Psychoanalytical Association, January 12 (via Zoom)
2023: Moderator, IPA Journal Club featuring Nancy Chodorow, PhD, International Psychoanalytical Association, December 15 (via Zoom)
2023: Moderator, IPA Journal Club featuring Jay Greenberg, PhD, International Psychoanalytical Association, September 15 (via Zoom)
2023: Moderator, IPA Journal Club featuring Jonathan Shedler, PhD, International Psychoanalytical Association, June 9 (via Zoom)
2022: Moderator, international panel on “Neutralities,” Webinar of the International Psychoanalytical Association, July 28 (via Zoom)

International—Seminar

2025: “From Bisexuality to Intersexuality: Rethinking Gender Categories, sponsored by the Department of Psychological and Social Sciences Lecture Series, in collaboration with the Psychology Society, the Student Engagement Office and the Minor in Gender Studies, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy, December 1 (30 attendees)
2023: “A Bisexual Man’s Search for Identity,” Seminar organized by International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP)-Mexico, March 22 (via Zoom, 20 attendees)
2022: “Gender and Sexuality in Clinical Psychology,” Workshop Organized by the International Exchange Committee of the Japanese Society of Clinical Psychology, June 24 (via Zoom)
2017: “PDM-2 and Non-pathological Experiences That May Require Clinical Attention,” Case Presenter, “The PDSM-2 Conference,” New York, NY, June 3.
2013: “Psychotherapy with LGBT Patients,” Invited Workshop Presenter, Annual Meeting of the Netherlands Psychiatric Association, Maastricht, April 12

Community Education

2024: “The Impact of Stress in the Workplace,” Invited Speaker, The Vanguard Network for C-Suite Leaders, New York, NY, September 12 (via Zoom)
2024: “Evolving Controversies in Treating Gender Dysphoric Youth”, Eshel Leadership, August 1, (via Zoom)
2023: “Changing Sexual Desires in Therapy: History, Scientific Review and Open Discussion about Psychotherapy for ‘Changing’ Sexuality,” Invited speaker to joint leadership meeting of JQY (Jewish Queer Youth) and Kesher Families (Orthodox Jewish families supporting LGBTQ+ relatives), New York, NY, July 19 (via Zoom)
2023: “Meet the LGBTQ+ Activists Who Eviscerated the ‘Mental Disorder’ Stigma,” Invited Panel Discussant, screening of the award-winning documentary CURED, Downtown Alliance, New York, NY, June 14
2022: “Special Screening Event: 50th Anniversary of Dr. John Fryer’s Historic Speech,” Invited Panel Discussant, special virtual screening of the award-winning documentary CURED, on the occasion of the 50^th anniversary of John Fryer’s historic Dr. H. Anonymous speech, Co-sponsored by Equality Forum, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the William Way Community Center, and the Association of LGBTQ Psychiatrists (AGLP), May 2 (via Zoom)
2021: “Controversies in Treating Transgender Children and Adolescents,” Invited Speaker, Eshel Parent Conference, “From Cocoon to Flight: Helping Our Children Safely Emerge,” April 18 (via Zoom)
2021: “LGBT Hate Crime Laws: Mental Health Issues and Motivations of Their Opponents,” Panel Speaker, Conference on “The Regulations of Homotransphobic Hate Crime Laws in a Comparative Framework,” sponsored by Gaynet and Ufficio Nazionale Antidiscriminazioni Razziali (UNAR), Italy, February 2 (via Zoom)
2021: “Ending the Harm: Conversion Therapy Fact, Fiction and Fighting for our Lives,” Panel Speaker, Annual “Creating Change” conference of the National LGBTQ Task Force, Washington DC, January 31 (via Zoom)
2020: “Town Hall: The Second Wave,” Panel Speaker, Panel on managing during COVID pandemic as winter and second wave occurs, Sponsored by Office of New York State Assembly Member, Rebecca Seawright, New York, NY, November 24 (via Zoom)
2020: “Out of DSM,” Invited Speaker, discussion of my scholarly work on diagnosing homosexuality that was cited in the Indian Supreme Court’s 2018 decision to overturn British colonial sodomy laws, NUJS Informal Discussion Group, West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata, India, July 17 (via Zoom)
2020: “A Minority in the Room: Being Seen for the Right Reasons,” Panel Speaker, Panel on managing minority status within corporations, HEC International Business School, Paris, France, May 29 (via Zoom)
2020: “The New Normal: Our Emotional and Financial Health,” Panel Speaker, Panel on managing anxiety during COVID pandemic, Sponsored by Office of New York State Assembly Member, Rebecca Seawright, New York, NY, May 14 (via Zoom)
2020: Invited Speaker, Expert Meeting on Conversion Therapy, United Nations Independent Expert on Violence and Discrimination based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, February 28
2019: “Does Diversity Catalyze Innovation,” Member, Panel Presentation, The Vanguard Forum for Healthcare Leaders (60 executives in corporate healthcare settings) 2019, New York, NY, November 7
2019: “Bad Education: Toward the Abolition of LGBTQ Conversion Therapy,” Member, Panel Presentation, Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute’s “Outlaws: Advancing LGBTQ Professional Leadership” Conference, New York, NY, June 12.
2018: “A Brief Nosology of Celluloid Shrinks,” Member, Panel Presentation on “Celluloid Shrinks: A Discussion of Therapy in the Movies and TV,” History Program, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY, November 30.
2018: “LGBTQA Mental Health Awareness,” Member, Panel Presentation, Mental Health Awareness Campaign, BNY Mellon EAP Department, New York, NY, May 22.
2017: “The History of Diagnosing Homosexuality and Gender Variance”, Lecturer, Eshel Shabbaton Fifth Annual Parent Retreat (weekend retreat for orthodox Jewish parents of LGBT children, 60 enrolled participants from around the country and all walks of professional life), Copake, NY, May 7.
2017: “It Takes Two to Tango: The Dance of the Parent-Child Relationship”Member, Panel Presentation on parent-child relationships in orthodox Jewish families who have LGBT children (60 enrolled participants from around the country and all walks of professional life), Eshel Shabbaton Fifth Annual Parent Retreat, Copake, NY, May 6.
2016: “From Mental Disorder to Gay Divorce,” Plenary speaker, conference on “Hot Topics in Matrimonial Law: Issues Facing the 21^st Century Family” (40 judges, attorneys and law students, 45 minutes), Sponsored by the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, New York and Co-Sponsored by the Suffolk Academy of Law, the educational arm of the Suffolk County Bar Association, Hauppauge, NY, November 4.
2016: “From Mental Disorder to Gay Divorce,” Panel member, conference on “Will the Real Parent Please Stand Up: The Conundrum of the Biological, Psychological, and De-Facto Parent” (200 attorneys, judges, mental health professionals and social services professionals, ½ hour), Sponsored by the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, New York and Co-Sponsored by the Association of the Bar for the City of New York, Family Court and Family Law Committee, New York, NY, June 14.
2015: “Unmasking Stigma,” Panel member, discussion of different types of stigma connected to people living with and affected by HIV and AIDS (20 HIV-affected clients, 1½ hours), GMHC, New York, NY, November 19.
2015: “Exploring John Fryer’s Legacy: The Removal of Homosexuality from APA’s DSM: History and Future,” Conference on “Fighting Back: Defending the LGBT Mind and Body in Pennsylvania,” (50 attendees, 1 hour) Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, October 19.
2014: “Out of Their Minds: A History of Psychiatric Views on Homosexuality,” (50 faculty members, graduate and undergraduate students, 1 hour) Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY, December 2.
2014: “Lady Valor: The Kristen Beck Story,” Panel Discussant of CNN documentary film (general audience, 80 people, 3-hour event), sponsored by CNN Films and Psychology Today, Time Warner Center, New York, NY, August 26.
2014: “Controversies in Treating Transgender Children and Adolescents”
Member, Panel Presentation, “Controversies in Gender Diagnosis,” True Colors Sexual Minority Youth and Family Services (150 attendees, 2 hours), Storrs, CT, March 21.
2014: “The AIDS Generation,” Member, Panel Presentation,
New York University Center for Study of Gender and Sexuality (faculty, students, 40 attendees, 2 hours), New York, NY, March 6.
2013: “Gay Conversion Therapy,” Member, Panel Presentation (30 attendees, 1½ hours) on legislative efforts to ban “conversion therapy” in New York State, sponsored by The Lesbian and Gay Democratic Club of Queens Jackson Heights, NY, October 7.
2013: “Can Sexual Orientation Be Changed?”, Member, Panel Presentation (50 attendees, 1½ hours) on “Selling the Promise of Change: International Health and Policy Consequences of Sexual Orientation Change Efforts (SOCE),” Sponsored by The NGO Committee on Human Rights & The NGO Committee on HIV/AIDS, United Nations Church Center, New York, NY, January 31.
2012: “Gay Conversion Therapy,” Panel Speaker (40 attendees, faculty and students, 2 hours), Columbia Law School, New York, NY, November 27.
2012: “Marriage Equality: From Mental Illness to Mental Health,” Invited Speaker (80 churchgoers, 45 minutes), Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork, Bridgehampton, NY, June 24.
2011: “How Politics Distorts Science: From Galileo to Ex-Gays,” Invited Plenary Speaker (>100 LGBT orthodox Jews, 1 hour) First Annual Eshel Shabbaton (weekend religious retreat), Falls Village, CT, January 23. Blogged about at https://goo.gl/xZ1zbn.

Jack Drescher, MD

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Public Speaker

Jack Drescher, MD

440 West 24th Street • Suite 1-A • New York, NY 10011 • 212-645-2232

Public Speaker

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