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Irving Bieber was born in [[New York City]] and graduated from New York University Medical College in 1930. He went on to work at Yale Medical College, [[New York University]], and starting in 1953 at the [[New York Medical College]], where he taught a course in psychoanalysis.<ref name="Irving Bieber, 80, a Psychoanalyst Who Studied Homosexuality, Dies">[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE3D7153FF93BA1575BC0A967958260 Irving Bieber, 80, a Psychoanalyst Who Studied Homosexuality, Dies - New York Times<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Bieber has been grouped with [[Lionel Ovesey]] and [[Charles Socarides]] as one of the most influential writers on male [[homosexuality]].<ref>Simon LeVay, ''Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research into Homosexuality'', The MIT Press, 1996, ISBN 0-262-12199-9 </ref> Bieber's 1962 book ''Homosexuality: A Psychoanalytic Study of Male Homosexuals'' was a counter reaction to the 1948 [[Kinsey Reports|Kinsey Report on male sexual behavior]]. It remained the leading study on [[homosexuality]] until homosexuality was removed from [[Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders|DSM-III]] in 1973.<ref name="James Baldwin Now">William J. Spurlin, 'Culture, Rhetoric, and Queer Identity', ''James Baldwin Now'', ed. Dwight A. McBride, New York University Press, 1999, pages 107-108</ref> In 1970, Bieber attended a meeting of the [[American Psychiatric Association]] in [[San Francisco]] that was disrupted by [[LGBT social movements|gay activists]], one of whom called him a "[[motherfucker]]." According to Charles Socarides, Bieber, who had "been working all these years to help these people", "took this very hard."<ref>{{cite book |first=Charles. |last=Socarides |year=1995 |title=Homosexuality: A Freedom Too Far |publisher=Adam Margrave Books|location=Phoenix|id= ISBN 0-9646642-5-9}}</ref> In 1973, Bieber told an interviewer that "a homosexual is a person whose heterosexual function is crippled, like the [[leg|legs]] of a [[polio]] victim."<ref name="Irving Bieber, 80, a Psychoanalyst Who Studied Homosexuality, Dies"/> |
Irving Bieber was born in [[New York City oh yeah]] and graduated from New York University Medical College in 1930. He went on to work at Yale Medical College oh yeah, [[New York University]], and starting in 1953 at the [[New York Medical College]], where he taught a course in psychoanalysis.<ref name="Irving Bieber, 80, a Psychoanalyst Who Studied Homosexuality, Dies">[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE3D7153FF93BA1575BC0A967958260 Irving Bieber, 80, a Psychoanalyst Who Studied Homosexuality, Dies - New York Times<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Bieber has been grouped with [[Lionel Ovesey]] and [[Charles Socarides]] as one of the most influential writers on male [[homosexuality]].<ref>Simon LeVay, ''Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research into Homosexuality'', The MIT Press, 1996, ISBN 0-262-12199-9 </ref> Bieber's 1962 book ''Homosexuality: A Psychoanalytic Study of Male Homosexuals'' was a counter reaction to the 1948 [[Kinsey Reports|Kinsey Report on male sexual behavior]]. It remained the leading study on [[homosexuality]] until homosexuality was removed from [[Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders|DSM-III]] in 1973.<ref name="James Baldwin Now">William J. Spurlin, 'Culture, Rhetoric, and Queer Identity', ''James Baldwin Now'', ed. Dwight A. McBride, New York University Press, 1999, pages 107-108</ref> In 1970, Bieber attended a meeting of the [[American Psychiatric Association]] in [[San Francisco]] that was disrupted by [[LGBT social movements|gay activists]], one of whom called him a "[[motherfucker]]." According to Charles Socarides, Bieber, who had "been working all these years to help these people", "took this very hard."<ref>{{cite book |first=Charles. |last=Socarides |year=1995 |title=Homosexuality: A Freedom Too Far |publisher=Adam Margrave Books|location=Phoenix|id= ISBN 0-9646642-5-9}}</ref> In 1973, Bieber told an interviewer that "a homosexual is a person whose heterosexual function is crippled, like the [[leg|legs]] of a [[polio]] victim."<ref name="Irving Bieber, 80, a Psychoanalyst Who Studied Homosexuality, Dies"/> |
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Bieber arranged a partial translation into English of a paper by the [[Hungary|Hungarian]] pediatrician S. Lindner, who had reported a systematic study of sucking. [[Sigmund Freud]] had used Lindner's observation that sensual sucking seems to absorb the attention completely and leads to either [[sleep]] or an [[orgasm]]-like response to develop his theory of infantile sexuality. Bieber pointed out what he saw as inaccuracies in Freud's use of this paper.<ref>{{cite book |first=Malcolm |last=Macmillan |year=1997|title=Freud Evaluated:The Completed Arc|publisher=The MIT Press|location=Cambridge |id= ISBN 0-262-63171-7}}</ref> |
Bieber arranged a partial translation into English of a paper by the [[Hungary|Hungarian]] pediatrician S. Lindner, who had reported a systematic study of sucking. [[Sigmund Freud]] had used Lindner's observation that sensual sucking seems to absorb the attention completely and leads to either [[sleep]] or an [[orgasm]]-like response to develop his theory of infantile sexuality. Bieber pointed out what he saw as inaccuracies in Freud's use of this paper.<ref>{{cite book |first=Malcolm |last=Macmillan |year=1997|title=Freud Evaluated:The Completed Arc|publisher=The MIT Press|location=Cambridge |id= ISBN 0-262-63171-7}}</ref> |
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Irving Bieber (1909 – 1991) was an American psychoanalyst, best known for his 1962 study, Homosexuality: A Psychoanalytic Study of Male Homosexuals, which was written jointly with Harvey J. Dain, Paul R. Dince, Marvin G. Drellich, Henry G. Grand, Ralph R. Gundlach, Malvina W. Kremer, Alfred H. Rifkin, Cornelia B. Wilbur, and Toby B. Bieber.[1]
Biography
Irving Bieber was born in New York City oh yeah and graduated from New York University Medical College in 1930. He went on to work at Yale Medical College oh yeah, New York University, and starting in 1953 at the New York Medical College, where he taught a course in psychoanalysis.[2] Bieber has been grouped with Lionel Ovesey and Charles Socarides as one of the most influential writers on male homosexuality.[3] Bieber's 1962 book Homosexuality: A Psychoanalytic Study of Male Homosexuals was a counter reaction to the 1948 Kinsey Report on male sexual behavior. It remained the leading study on homosexuality until homosexuality was removed from DSM-III in 1973.[4] In 1970, Bieber attended a meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in San Francisco that was disrupted by gay activists, one of whom called him a "motherfucker." According to Charles Socarides, Bieber, who had "been working all these years to help these people", "took this very hard."[5] In 1973, Bieber told an interviewer that "a homosexual is a person whose heterosexual function is crippled, like the legs of a polio victim."[2]
Bieber arranged a partial translation into English of a paper by the Hungarian pediatrician S. Lindner, who had reported a systematic study of sucking. Sigmund Freud had used Lindner's observation that sensual sucking seems to absorb the attention completely and leads to either sleep or an orgasm-like response to develop his theory of infantile sexuality. Bieber pointed out what he saw as inaccuracies in Freud's use of this paper.[6]
Bieber died in Manhattan in 1991.[2]
Books
Homosexuality: A Psychoanalytic Study of Male Homosexuals
Homosexuality has been criticized for examining homosexuals already in analytic treatment as opposed to non-patient heterosexuals.[7] It has been suggested that the study informed stereotypes later promulgated by the media.[4] For example, in 1964 Life Magazine[8] featured an article on homosexuals and smothering mothers directly inspired by this study.[9] Writers associated with NARTH have continued to use the study. Joseph Nicolosi commented, "Irving Bieber's 1962 study established this family type [the classic triadic family] empirically. It has been repeatedly shown to be the foundational model in male homosexuality, although there is more consistency in findings about fathers than about mothers."[10]
Bibliography
- Homosexuality: A Psychoanalytic Study of Male Homosexuals, 1962
- Cognitive Psychoanalysis: Cognitive Processes in Psychopathology, 1980
See also
References
- ^ Irving Bieber, Homosexuality: A Psychoanalytic Study of Male Homosexuals, Basic Books Inc, 1962, p. 3
- ^ a b c Irving Bieber, 80, a Psychoanalyst Who Studied Homosexuality, Dies - New York Times
- ^ Simon LeVay, Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research into Homosexuality, The MIT Press, 1996, ISBN 0-262-12199-9
- ^ a b William J. Spurlin, 'Culture, Rhetoric, and Queer Identity', James Baldwin Now, ed. Dwight A. McBride, New York University Press, 1999, pages 107-108
- ^ Socarides, Charles. (1995). Homosexuality: A Freedom Too Far. Phoenix: Adam Margrave Books. ISBN 0-9646642-5-9.
- ^ Macmillan, Malcolm (1997). Freud Evaluated:The Completed Arc. Cambridge: The MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-63171-7.
- ^ Richard C. Friedman, Male Homosexuality: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspective, Yale University Press, 1988, pages 36-37
- ^ Life, June 26, 1964, page 68
- ^ Lee Edelman, Homographesis: essays in gay literary and cultural theory, Routledge, New York & London, 1994, page 166
- ^ Interview with Joseph Nicolosi