Jun 08 2021 43 mins
Before Stonewall, the gay community lived in the shadows and even after this monumental protest and other significant milestones, the LGBTQ community still faces discrimination, abuse, and aggressive behaviors in their day-to-day lives. Dr. Virani discusses the issues at the core of the mental health challenges to the LGBTQ community referencing history where applicable, with Dr. Elie Aoun and Dr. Ali Haidar, two New York-based psychiatrists.
Subjects discussed:
- Conversion therapy
- Queer expression of identity
- Dealing with cultural values in a therapeutic relationship
- Biased diagnoses due to sexual orientation
- Doctors pathologizing based on negative implications of sexual practices
- LGBTQ identifying psychiatrists facing micro and macro aggressions from administration and patients
- Supporting LGBTQ trainees
Dr. Sanya Virani, host
Dr. Elie Aoun is a psychiatrist in general, addiction, and forensic practice in New York, on faculty at Columbia University, and at Central New York Psychiatric Center as the Sex Offender Management Liaison psychiatrist. He completed his general psychiatry residency at Brown University in Providence, RI, Addiction Psychiatry fellowship at UCSF in San Francisco, and Forensic Psychiatry fellowship at the Columbia University Cornell University combined program, and a fellowship in psychiatric research at Columbia University. He is the ECP Trustee at large for the APA and the immediate past Vice-Chair of the APA Council on Addiction Psychiatry. He works closely with medical students as well as psychiatric residents and fellows at Columbia University where he serves as a co-director of the sexual behavior clinic and rotation.
Dr. Ali Haidar completed his psychiatry residency at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn and is currently a PGY-5 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Chief fellow at Mount Sinai in New York. His primary areas of interest include LGBTQ mental health, public psychiatry, cultural psychiatry, medical education, and global mental health particularly displacement and migration’s effect on the psyche. He is currently an APA leadership fellow and serves as ECP member of the APA Council on International Psychiatry and Global Health.