Richard A. Isay

RICHARD A. ISAY, M.D. was an American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and gay activist who published three books on homosexuality and psychoanalysis. His books include Commitment and Healing: Gay Men and the Need for Romantic Love, Becoming Gay: The Journey to Self-Acceptance, and Being Homosexual: Gay Men and Their Development.

Isay earned his undergraduate degree from Haverford College and his M.D. from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He served as a professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, as a faculty member of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and as chairman of the Committee on Gay and Lesbian Issues of the American Psychiatric Association.

Isay was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and died of cancer on June 28, 2012, in Manhattan, New York.

Richard A. Isay’s books are published by Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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