Psychiatry’s Gender Trouble

PSYCHPEARLS PODCAST

LGBTQ issues are some of the most pressing and difficult topics facing psychiatrists today. In this podcast, Psychiatric Times^TM interviews Michael F. Myers about gender and sexuality. Topics of discussion include:

• Current subjects in gender and sexuality, including gender dysmorphia
• How psychiatry’s understanding of sexuality and gender has changed over time
• His own experience as a doctor during the AIDS crisis

Find out more about Dr Myers and his experience treating patients during the AIDS crisis in his new memoir, Becoming a Doctors’ Doctor.

Dr Myers is professor of Clinical Psychiatry and immediate past Vice-Chair of Education and Director of Training in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at SUNY-Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY.