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For Information Contact: For Immediate Release:
Eve Herold, 703-907-8640 April 23, 2009
press@psych.org Release No. 09-27
Jaime Valora, 703-907-8562
jvalora@psych.orgLGBT Issues Discussion Slated for APA Annual Meeting
ARLINGTON, Va. (April 23, 2009) — A historic look at the American Psychiatric Association’s role in breaking barriers for gay people and a discussion of the role and place of gender identity disorders in the next DSM will be among several sessions at the APA Annual Meeting that address lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues.The APA Annual Meeting will be May 16-21 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
The Northern California Psychiatric Society is sponsoring a panel discussion that will look at APA’s role in breaking barriers and affecting social change. Presenters include Alfred Freedman, M.D., APA president when homosexuality was removed from the DSM; Carol Nadelson, M.D., APA’s first woman president; Larry Hartmann, M.D., APA’s first openly gay president; and Melvin Sabshin, M.D., medical director of APA from 1974 to 1997. The discussion is scheduled Monday, May 18, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Room 304 at the Moscone Center.
Diagnostic issues specific to gender identity disorder and its inclusion in the upcoming fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-V) will be featured in a session titled “In or Out? Discussion About Gender Identity Diagnoses and the DSM,” on Monday, May 18, from 2 to 5 p.m.
Other sessions will address mental health issues among LGBT youth and among older adults. Annual meeting sessions (at the Moscone Center unless otherwise noted) on LGBT issues include:
Monday, May 18
9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Ready? OK! A Film about Childhood Gender Variance by American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry;
Room 123
Chair: Richard Pleak, M.D., Co-Chair: Sarah Herbert, M.D., M.S.W.2 – 5 p.m. In or Out?: A Discussion about Gender Identity Diagnoses and the DSM
Room 121 Experts from the APA will lead a discussion on diagnostic issues specific to gender identity disorder and its inclusion in the DSM-V. Co-Chairs: Jack Drescher, M.D.; William E. Narrow, M.D., M.P.H
• The DSM-V Revision Process: Principles and Progress, William E. Narrow, M.D. and Peggy-Cohen Kettenis, Ph.D.
• Beyond Conundrum: Strategies for Diagnostic Harm Reduction, Kelley Winters, Ph.D.
• Aligning Bodies With Minds: The Case for Medical and Surgical Treatment of Gender Dysphoria, Rebecca Allison, M.D.
• The Role of Medical and Psychological Discourse in Legal and Policy Advocacy for Transgender Persons in the U.S., Shannon P. Minter, J.D. and Mara Kiesling.
2 – 5 p.m. The Neurobiological Evidence for Transgenderism
Room 125
• Brain Gender Identity, Sidney W. Ecker, M.D.
• Transsexuality as an Intersex Condition, Milton Diamond, Ph.D.
• Novel Approaches to Endocrine Treatment of Transgender Adolescents and Adults, Norman Spack, M.D.2 – 5 p.m. Northern California Psychiatric Society Presents: Breaking the Barriers
Room 304 This session focuses on landmark cultural changes in society and the APA from 1970 to 1992.
• Alfred Freeman, M.D., APA president 1973-1974
• Carol Nadelson, M.D., APA’s first woman president
• Lawrence Hartmann, M.D., APA’s first openly gay president
• Melvin Sabshin, M.D., APA medical director from 1974 to 1997Tuesday, May 19
11 a.m. -12:30 p.m. When Politics Distorts Science: A Psychiatrist Reports From the Trenches of the Culture Wars
Room 303/305
Jack Drescher, M.D., Distinguished Psychiatrist LectureWednesday, May 20
2 – 5 p.m. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth: Family Approaches
Room 124
• Psychopathology and Gender Variance in a Clinical Sample of Children, Edgardo J. Menvielle, M.D.
• Gender Made, Gender Nurtured, Gender Bent: The Child Shapes the Parent as the Parent Shapes the Child in Families With a Gender-Variant Child, Diane Ehrensaft, Ph.D.
• Three Integrated Family Interventions for Children With Gender-Variant Behaviors: Face-To-Face Groups, Online Discussions, and Multi-Family Gatherings, Catherine L. Tuerk, M.A.
Thursday, May 21
9 – 10:30 a.m. Out and Up in Age: Mental Health in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Older Adults
Room 114
APA Committee on Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Issues; Chair: Ellen Haller, M.D.
9 – 10:30 a.m. Optimizing the Delivery of Mental Health and Primary Care Services for Persons Living With HIV/AIDS
Chair: David E. Cohn, M.D., Faculty: Saul G.Perea, M.D; Shane S. Spicer, M.D.For more information on the meeting and the scientific program. Online advanced registration for journalists is open. For more information and to register.
About the American Psychiatric Association:
The American Psychiatric Association is a national medical specialty society whose more than 38,000 physician members
specialize in diagnosis, treatment, prevention and research of mental illnesses including substance use disorders. Visit the APA at http://www.psych.org and http://www.HealthyMinds.org.
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