What Every Gay Man Needs to Know about Prostate Cancer: The Essential Guide to Diagnosis, Treatment, and Recovery
Gerald Perlman, PhD has been a Supervisor of Psychotherapy at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, at Fordham, Pace, and Yeshiva Universities and at the City University of New York, as well as at the William Alanson White Institute where he received his certificate in Psychoanalysis. Dr. Perlman has written numerous essays and given many presentations on the practice of psychotherapy and the mental health issues of gay men. He is a Former Director of Psychology Internship Training at Manhattan Psychiatric Center in New York City. He is also former President of the New York Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychologists. Dr. Perlman was a member of the gay caucus of the New York State Psychological Association as well as at The William Alanson White Institute. Along with Jack Drescher, MD, he co-edited A Gay Man’s Guide to Prostate Cancer. Dr. Perlman has also been on the editorial board of the Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy. He was a Peer Reviewer for the Prostate Cancer Research Program under the auspices of the Department of Defense. Darryl Mitteldorf and Dr. Perlman have co-authored a manuscript concerning gay men with a variety of cancers that will appear in a volume entitled Gay Lesbian Medical Association’s Handbook on LGBT Health, which covers many medical issues facing the LGBT community. In his private practice in New York, Dr. Perlman specializes in individual and couples therapy. For almost ten years (under the auspices of Malecare) he facilitated an ongoing, open-ended group for gay men who have been diagnosed with and/or treated for prostate cancer. The experiential essays written in this book come from some of the men who have been part of that group.