Description
Introduction 1. The Sexual Betrayal of Boys 2. Encoding Sexual Abuse as Sexual Initiation 3. Struggles about Masculinity 4. Same-Sex Abuse 5. The Familial and Cultural Context of Abuse 6. The Effect of Chronic Boundary Violations 7. Dissociation and Multiple Self-States 8. Intimate Relatedness 9. The Patient/n-/Therapist Dyad 10. Gender and the Therapeutic Relationship (with Sue A. Shapiro) 11. Group Therapy Afterword
Richard B. Gartner, PhD, trained as both a family therapist and an interpersonal psychoanalyst. A graduate of the William Alanson White Institute in New York City, he is now Director of the Institute's Center for the Study of Psychological Trauma as well as founder and Director of the Sexual Abuse Program that operates under the Center's auspices. He has written and spoken extensively on the treatment of men sexually abused as boys. Dr. Gartner is a consultant and supervisor at the Center for Abuse and Incest at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, is on the editorial boards of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the American Journal of Psychoanalysis, and serves on the Board of Directors of the National Organization on Male Sexual Victimization. He practices in Manhattan and Brooklyn.