Jack Drescher
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons and a Faculty Member at Columbia’s Division of Gender, Sexuality, and Health
Jack Drescher (he/him/his) is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons and a Faculty Member at Columbia’s Division of Gender, Sexuality, and Health. He is a Senior Psychoanalytic Consultant at Columbia’s Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and Adjunct Professor at New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute. Dr. Drescher also Co-Chairs the Committee on Public Information of the American Psychoanalytic Association and co-edits APsaA’sPsychoanalysis Unplugged blog on PsychologyToday.com. He is a consultant to the Sexual & Gender Diversity Studies Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association.
Dr. Drescher has served as an expert witness in legal cases dealing with LGBT rights in California, New Jersey and New York. Two of his published works were cited in a 2018 Indian Supreme Court decision that overturned colonial sodomy laws and decriminalized adult, consensual same-sex behavior (Navtej Singh Johar and others v. Union of India). In 2020, the US Supreme Court cited one of his scholarly publications (although sadly in the minority dissent) in the decision to extend Title VII workplace protections to sexual orientation and transgender status (Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia).