Ex-Gay Research: Analyzing the Spitzer Study and Its Relation to Science, Religion, Politics, and Culture is essential reading for sex researchers, mental health professionals, pastoral counselors, political activists, and any person asking if one can truly change his or her homosexuality.
Jack Drescher, MD, is a fellow and a training and supervising analyst at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology and a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at SUNY-Downstate. A distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, he chairs the APA’s Committee on Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Issues. Dr. Drescher is a founding member of the Committee on Sexual Minorities of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP) and former chair of its Committee on Human Sexuality. He is author of Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man (1998, The Analytic Press), co-editor, with Ariel Shidlo and Michael Schroeder, of Sexual Conversion Therapy: Ethical, Clinical, and Research Perspectives (2001, The Haworth Medical Press), and edits The Analytic Press’s Bending Psychoanalysis book series. Dr. Drescher is in full-time private practice in New York City.
Kenneth J. Zucker, PhD, is professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He is the head of the Gender Identity Service in the Child, Youth, and Family Program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. He has served on the DSM-III-R, DSM-IV, and DSM-IV-TR Subcommittees on Gender Identity Disorders. He co-authored with Susan J. Bradley Gender Identity Disorder and Psychosexual Problems in Children and Adolescents (Guilford Press, 1995). Since 2002, he has been the editor of Archives of Sexual Behavior and is currently president-elect of the International Academy of Sex Research.