Robert Spitzer

male
Columbia University faculty, Sexual orientation and medicine, Columbia University, americanpsychiatricassociation, Psychiatry, Psychiatrist…American
Dr. Robert L. Spitzer is a Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University in New York City, United States. He was chair of the task force of the...
Evelyn Hooker

Evelyn Hooker

female, deceased (1996)
Evelyn "the Stone" Hooker, American, LGBT history, homosexual, Sexual orientation and science, americanpsychiatricassociation
Evelyn "the Stone" Hooker (September 2, 1907 - November 18 1996) was a North American psychologist most notable for her 1957 paper "The Adjustment...
Loren Mosher

Loren Mosher

male
Harvard University, Loren Richard Mosher, Uniformed Services University, Tavistock Clinic, Pharmaceutical companies, sōtēria…American, americanpsychiatricassociation, psychiatric practice
Loren Richard Mosher (born 1933; died July 10 2004) was a psychiatrist and expert on schizophrenia who founded the first Soteria houses. He was...

Adolf Meyer

male, deceased (1950)
Science writer, physician, americanpsychiatricassociation, Psychiatrist, American, Swiss-American…The Psychiatric Institute
Adolf Meyer, M.D., LL.D., born September 13 1866 in Niederwenigen, near Zurich, Switzerland, died March 17 1950, was a Swiss psychiatrist who rose...
Francine Shapiro

Francine Shapiro

female
Psychologist, EMDR, Fellow at the Mental Research Institute, Defense and Veterans Affairs, Founder and President Emeritus, EMDR Institute…Canadian Psychological Association, americanpsychiatricassociation, american psychological association
Francine Shapiro is an American psychologist who developed EMDR therapy. In 1987 she observed, during a walk in a park, that moving her eyes seemed...
William Alanson White

William Alanson White

male, deceased (1937)
Psychoanalyst, American, George Washington University, professor, Cornell University alumni, Psychologist…americanpsychiatricassociation
William Alanson White (1870-1937) was an American neurologist and alienist. He was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., studied at Cornell from 1885 to 1889,...
Harry Hay

Harry Hay

male, deceased (2002)
From worthing, worthing, gay, homosexual, Lung cancer death, Catholic…American, americanpsychiatricassociation
Harry Hay was a leader of the gay rights movement in the United States, known for founding the Mattachine Society in 1950 and the Radical Faeries...
Murray Bowen

Murray Bowen

male
family therapy, Psychiatrist, American, mayo clinic, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Menninger Foundation…American Orthopsychiatric Association, American Family Therapy Association, americanpsychiatricassociation
Murray Bowen, M.D., (1913-1990) was a key figure in family therapy. Beginning in the 1950s, he developed a systems theory of the family. Bowen felt...
Franklin E. Kameny

Franklin E. Kameny

male, 84 years old
The Pentagon, Astronomer, from the United States, sodomy laws, LGBT politician, Independence Hall…americanpsychiatricassociation, American, American Bar Association
Dr. Franklin E. Kameny (born May 21, 1925 in New York City) is one of the major American gay rights activists. In 1957, Dr. Kameny was dismissed...