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Revision as of 18:52, 30 June 2008 by MarionTheLibrarian (talk | contribs) (Best known to Jokestress, maybe.)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Susan Jane Bradley is a Canadian psychiatrist best known for her work on gender identity disorder in children. She has written many journal articles and books, including Gender Identity Disorder and Psychosexual Problems in Children and Adolescents (with Kenneth Zucker) and Affect Regulation and the Development of Psychopathology. Bradley was Chair of the DSM-IV Subcommittee on Gender Disorders.
Bradley served as Head of the Division of Child Psychiatry and was Psychiatrist-in-Chief at the Hospital for Sick Children and was consultant psychiatrist at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry. She is a Professor Emerita in the Department of Psychiatry at University of Toronto and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.
Career
Bradley earned her M.D. from University of Toronto in 1966 and was certified in 1967. She earned her specialty license in psychiatry in 1972. In the late seventies, Bradley founded the Child and Adolescent Gender Identity Clinic at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry. In collaboration with her co-author Zucker, she saw over 400 cases of children and adolescents with gender identity disorder and related issues.
Bradley was Clinical Director of the Department of Psychiatry from 1984 to 1988 and Psychiatrist-in-Chief and Head of the Division of Child Psychiatry at the University of Toronto from 1988 to 1998.
Bradley was on the 1994 subcommittee where transsexualism was removed from the DSM-IV and replaced by Gender Identity Disorder of adulthood. Her co-author Zucker was also on the 1994 subcommittee, the 2002 subcommittee, the 2008 DSM V subcommittee (as chair).
Psychologist Darryl Hill describes Bradley's approach to gender-variant children:
Zucker and Bradley believe that reparative treatments (encouraging the child to accept their natal sex and associated gender) can be therapeutic for several reasons. They believe that treatment can reduce social ostracism by helping gender non-conforming children mix more readily with same sex peers and prevent long-term psychopathological development (i.e., it is easier to change a child than a society intolerant of gender diversity). Reparative therapy is believed to reduce the chances of adult GID (i.e., transsexualism) which Zucker and Bradley characterize as undesirable.
Clinicians have called Bradley's therapeutic intervention "something disturbingly close to reparative therapy for homosexuals." Author Phyllis Burke wrote, "The diagnosis of GID in children, as supported by Zucker and Bradley, is simply child abuse." Journalist Stephanie Wilkinson said Zucker characterized Burke's book as "the work of a journalist whose views shouldn't be put into the same camp as those of scientists like Richard Green or himself." A 2007 celebration honoring Bradley's career was crashed by transgender protesters.
Bradley's longstanding interest in parenting and evaluation of parenting programs led to her involvement in initiating The Parenting Alliance and the Infant Mental Health Promotion Project. The Council for Early Child Development named Bradley a Community Champion for her work developing the Early Years Centres.
Selected publications
- Gender identity disorder and psychosexual problems in children and adolescents, 1996, Guilford Press, ISBN 9780898622669, with Kenneth J. Zucker
- Affect Regulation and the development of Psychopathology, 2003, Guilford Press ISBN 1572309393
References
- Dingfelder, Sadie F. (April 2004). "Gender bender". Monitor on Psychology, Vol. 35, No. 4. Retrieved 2008-06-17.
- Hill DB, Rozanski C, Carfagnini J, Willoughby B (2006). Gender Identity Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence: A Critical Inquiry. pp. 7-34. In Karasic D, Drescher J (Eds.) Sexual and Gender Diagnoses of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM): A Reevaluation. Haworth Press ISBN 0789032147
- Pickstone-Taylor, Simon D. (2003). Children with gender nonconformity. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 42, 266.
- Burke, Phyllis (1996). Gender Shock. Anchor. ISBN 978-0385477185
- Wilkinson, Stephanie (2001). Drop the Barbie! Brain, Child
- Gagnon, Audrey (April 12, 2007). Boys will be girls: Gender identity clinic event disrupted by trans activists. ‘’Xtra!’’
External links
- Susan J. Bradley profile via Hospital for Sick Children
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