| Expertise: - lesbian families, children conceived by donor insemination
- sexual abuse of patients by therapists and physicians
- psychotherapy with lesbians – individuals and couples
Additional Information:
Dr. Gartrell was the first out lesbian on the Harvard Medical School faculty, where she served from 1976 to 1987. Since 1988, she has been at University of California-San Francisco, where she is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and has taught ethics and feminist theory. She is the author of more than 50 original research reports on topics related to lesbian mental health and medical ethics. Dr. Gartrell has discussed her ground-breaking investigations in documentaries produced for PBS, Showtime, and French and German Public Television; and in news segments for network television. She is the editor of Bringing Ethics Alive: Feminist Ethics in Psychotherapy Practice and the co-editor (with Dr. Esther Rothblum) of Everyday Mutinies: Funding Lesbian Activism (2001). Her forthcoming book, My Answer is NO…If That’s Okay With You, will be released by Simon & Schuster’s Free Press on January 1, 2008.
For the last 35 years, Dr. Gartrell has influenced the perception of lesbians within the medical profession and other cultural institutions. She is currently conducting research on families in which the children were conceived by donor insemination. Hers is the largest, longest-running study of lesbian families in the United States. Now in its 21st year, this cutting-edge project has been cited in debates over equality in marriage, foster care, and adoption. (More information at www.nllfs.org)
Dr. Gartrell has been a reviewer for the American Journal of Psychiatry, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Journal of Hospital and Community Psychiatry, and Feminism & Psychology. She has served on the editorial boards of Women and Therapy and The Journal of Lesbian Studies. Dr. Gartrell has also written for the New York Times Magazine and the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine.
Selected publications from the National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study:
- Gartrell N, Hamilton J, Banks A, Mosbacher D, Reed N, Sparks C, Bishop H. The national lesbian family study I: Interviews with prospective mothers. Am J Orthopsychiatry. 1996; 66(2): 272-281.
- Gartrell N, Banks A, Hamilton J, Reed N, Bishop H, Rodas C. The national lesbian family study II: Interviews with mothers of toddlers. Am J Orthopsychiatry. 1999; 69(3): 362-369.
- Gartrell N, Banks A, Reed N, Hamilton J, Rodas C, Deck A. The national lesbian family study: 3. Interviews with mothers of five-year-olds. Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2000; 70(4): 542-548.
- Gartrell N, Rodas C, Deck A, Peyser H, Banks A. The national lesbian family study: 4 interviews with the 10-year-old children. Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2005; 75(4): 518-524.
- Gartrell N, Rodas C, Deck A, Peyser H, Banks A. The U.S.A. national lesbian family study: interviews with mothers of 10-year-olds. Feminism & Psychology. 2006; 16(2): 175-192.
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