Jack Drescher, MD

Psychiatry
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Overview

Areas of Expertise / Conditions Treated

  • Adjustment Disorder
  • Anxiety
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Depression
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • Insomnia
  • Mental Health
  • Mood Disorders
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Panic Disorder
  • Psychopharmacology
  • Psychosis
  • Psychotherapy
  • Schizophrenia
  • Social Anxiety Disorder

Academic Appointments

  • Clinical Professor Psychiatry

Languages

  • Italian

Gender

  • Male

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Credentials & Experience

Education & Training

  • MD, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI
  • BA, Biology, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
  • Internship: St. Vincent’s Hospital & Medical Center, New York, NY
  • Residency: SUNY-Downstate, Brooklyn, NY

Editorial Boards

  • 2024: Member, Editorial Board, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA)
  • 2022-Present: Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Rivista di Psicologia Clinica (The Italian Journal of Clinical Psychology)
  • 2022-Present: International Scientific Committee, Pedagogia delle differenze: Bolletino della Fondazione Fazio Allmayer, Palermo, Italy.
  • 2020-2023: Section Editor, Treatment Issues in Specific Populations and Settings, Tasman’s Psychiatry, 5th Edition, Springer.
  • 2020-2022: Section Editor, Gender and Sexualities in Psychotherapy, Gabbard’s Textbook of Psychotherapeutic Treatments in Psychiatry, 2nd Edition, American Psychiatric Press.
  • 2020: Guest Editor, FOCUS: The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry
  • 2019-2022: Section Editor, Gender Dysphoria, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR), American Psychiatric Press.
  • 2019-2021: Co-Editor, Psychoanalysis Unplugged: Official blog of the American Psychoanalytic Association (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psychoanalysis-unplugged-0)
  • 2017-Present: Polaris: Psicoanalisi e mondo contemporaneo
  • 2015-Present: Transgender Health
  • 2013-Present: Associate Editor, Archives of Sexual Behavior
  • 2012-Present: Journal of LGBT Health. Associate Editor, 2012-2015, Senior Editor, 2015-Present
  • 2007-2016: Contemporary Psychoanalysis
  • 2005: Guest Editor, Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality
  • 2003-2010: Journal of GLBT Family Studies
  • 1998-Present: Studies in Gender and Sexuality
  • 1996-Present: Journal of Homosexuality, Invited Guest Editor, 2011-2012
  • 1995-1997: Gender and Psychoanalysis
  • 1992-Present: Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health (formerly Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy), Editor-in Chief, 1997-2007; Emeritus Editor, 2008-Present

Honors & Awards

  • 2024: Dr. Ivan Goldberg Outstanding Service Award, New York County Psychiatric Society
  • 2023: Haskell Norman Prize for Excellence in Psychoanalysis, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
  • 2023: American Psychiatric Association Distinguished Psychiatrist Lecturer
  • 2022: The Mary S. Sigourney Award for International Work on Gender and Sexuality
  • 2022: Public Communications Award, Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
  • 2021: Visiting Professor, Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute
  • 2018: American Psychiatric Association’s John Fryer Award
  • 2017: Federation of State Medical Boards’ Award for Excellence in Editorial Writing
  • 2016: Albert M. Biele Visiting Professor in Psychiatry, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University
  • 2013: Sheppard-Pratt’s Harry Stack Sullivan Award Lecturer
  • 2009: American Psychiatric Association Special Presidential Commendation
  • 2009: American Psychiatric Association Distinguished Psychiatrist Lecturer
  • 2006: American Psychiatric Association Irma Bland Award for Excellence in Teaching Residents
  • 2005: American Psychiatric Association Nomination for President-Elect
  • 2004: James Paulsen Service Award from AGLP, The Association of LGBTQ+ Psychiatrists

Research

Selected Publications

  1. Drescher J: Asses making passes: Making meaning of unwanted sexual advances. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 2018, 54(4):665-676.
  2. Drescher J, Fors M: An appreciation and critique of PDM-2's focus on minority stress through the case of Frank. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 2018, 35(3):357-362.
  3. Drescher J: Smoke gets in your eyes: Discussion of "When Harry met Jimmie." Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 2017, 14(1):31-39.
  4. *Reed GM, *Drescher J, Krueger RB, Atalla E, Cochran SD, First MB, Cohen-Kettenis PT, et al. Revising the ICD-10 Mental and Behavioural Disorders classification of sexuality and gender identity based on current scientific evidence, best clinical practices, and human rights considerations. World Psychiatry, 2016, .
  5. Drescher J, Schwartz A, Casoy, F, McIntosh CA, Hurley, B, Ashely K, et al: The growing regulation of conversion therapy. Journal of Medical Regulation, 2016, 102(2):7-12. Winner of Federation of State Medical Boards' Award for Excellence in Editorial Writing, April 26, 2018.
  6. *Drescher J, Cohen-Kettenis PT, Reed GM: Gender incongruence of childhood in the ICD-11: Controversies, proposal, and rationale. Lancet Psychiatry, 2016, 3:297-304.
  7. Drescher J: Out of DSM: Depathologizing homosexuality. Behavioral Sciences, 2015, 5:565-575.
  8. Lingiard V, Nardelli N, Drescher J: New Italian lesbian, gay and bisexual psychotherapy guidelines: A review. International Review of Psychiatry, 2015, 27(5):405-415.
  9. Drescher J: Queer diagnoses revisited: International Review of Psychiatry, 2015, 27(5):386-395.
  10. Drescher J: Gender policing in the clinical setting: Discussion of Sandra Silverman's "The Colonized Mind: Gender, Trauma and Mentalization." Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 2015, 25(1):67-76.
  11. Drescher J: Can sexual orientation be changed? Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health, 2015, 19(1):84-93.
  12. *Drescher J, Pula J: Ethical issues raised by the treatment of gender variant prepubescent children. The Hastings Center Report, 2014, 44, Suppl 4:S17-22.
  13. Cochran SD, *Drescher J, Kismodi E, Giami A, Garcia-Moreno C, Reed, GM: Proposed declassification of disease categories related to sexual orientation in ICD-11: Rationale and evidence from the Working Group on Sexual Disorders and Sexual Health. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2014, 92:672-679.
  14. Drescher J: Are the kids all right? Avuncular reflections on the gayby boom. Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health, 2014, 18(2):222-229.
  15. Drescher J: Controversies in gender diagnoses. LGBT Health, 2014, 1(1):9-15.
  16. Zucker KJ, Cohen-Kettenis PT, Drescher J, Meyer-Bahlburg HFL, Pfäfflin F, Womack WM: Memo outlining evidence for change for gender identity disorder in the DSM-5. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2013, 42:901-914.
  17. Drescher J: Ghosts in the consulting room: A discussion of Anson's "Ghosts in the Dressing Room." Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health, 2013, 17:112-120.
  18. *Drescher J, Cohen-Kettenis PT, Winter S: Minding the body: Situating gender diagnoses in the ICD-11. International Review of Psychiatry, 2012, 24(6): 568-577.
  19. *Drescher J, Byne W: Introduction to the treatment of gender dysphoric/gender variant (GD/GV) children and adolescents. Journal of Homosexuality, 2012, 59(3):295-300.
  20. *Drescher J, Byne W: Gender Dysphoric/Gender Variant (GD/GV) children and adolescents: Summarizing what we know and what we have yet to learn. Journal of Homosexuality, 2012, 59(3):501-510.
  21. Drescher J: The removal of homosexuality from the DSM: Its impact on today's marriage equality debate. Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health, 2012, 16(2):124-135.
  22. Barber M, *Drescher J, Rosario V: The GAP [Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry] online LGBT mental health curriculum. Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health, 2012, 16(1):41-48.
  23. Drescher J: Queer diagnoses: Parallels and contrasts in the history of homosexuality, gender variance, and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2010, 39:427-460.
  24. Vance Jr. SR, Cohen-Kettenis PT, Drescher J, Meyer-Bahlburg HFL, Pfäfflin F, Zucker KJ: Opinions about the DSM gender identity disorder diagnosis: Results from an international survey administered to organizations concerned with the welfare of transgender people. International Journal of Transgenderism, 2010, 12:1-14.