Douglas Sadownick
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Douglas Sadownick is a gay American writer and psychologist.
[edit] Biography
Born in the Bronx, he attended Columbia College for his B.A., New York University for his graduate work in English, and the graduate program in clinical psychology at Antioch College in clinical psychology. He received his Ph.D. from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Clinical Psychology in 2006.
He is the director of the nation's first LGBT specialization in Clinical Psychology at Antioch University/Los Angeles. He is also the co-founder of the Institute for Contemporary Uranian Psychoanalysis, which offers continued education units to licensed psychotherapists on the issues of gay-affirmative psychotherapy.
His work Sacred Lips of the Bronx was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. His second book was called Sex Between Men: An Intimate History fo the Sex Lives of Gay Men, postwar to Present. His articles have appeared in the Advocate, the Los Angeles Times, Genre, High Performance, the New York Native, and the L.A. Weekly. He received a GLAAD award for excellence in reporting. He works as a private practice psychotherapist in Los Angeles. His most recent paper, "Reading Literature Gay-Affirmatively: A Homosexual Individuation Story," will be published in Spring in the journal Arts and Humanities.
[edit] Works
- Sacred Lips of the Bronx
- Sex Between Men: An Intimate History of the Sex Lives of Gay Men Postwar to Present.
- Men on Men 4, an anthology
