Dr. Richard Gartner is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in New York City. A Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty of the William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Institute, he is the Founding Director of the White Institute's Sexual Abuse Service and for six years he was Director of its Center for the Study of Psychological Trauma. The White Institute honored Dr. Gartner with its 2004...
Since the 1980's, Dr. Richard Gartner has been helping men overcome the trauma of sexual victimization. Male sexual abuse is not widely acknowledged, but it is wide spread. According to academic literature, as many as one in six boys experience unwanted sexual contact from an adult or an older child by age 16. Male abuse survivors tend to minimize their own trauma....which places them at...