Article ID: CBB983328950

Robert J. Stoller in the Clinic and the Village (2020)

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This paper examines the historical, cultural, and biographical context of the work of the late UCLA psychoanalytic psychiatrist Robert J. Stoller, as narrated through the voice of anthropologist Gilbert Herdt, who worked with Stoller over a number of years as a postdoctoral fellow and then a junior colleague. The epistemological and professional goals of Stoller in opening up the field of psychoanalysis to the study of sexual excitement, human sexual variation, a radical revision of homosexuality dynamically, and especially the acceptance of divergent LGBT orientations is examined in the professional development and work of Stoller in the Department of Psychiatry at UCLA in the 1950s–1980s. The final section of the article examines the fieldwork collaboration of Stoller and Herdt in the context of Herdt's Papua New Guinea field site among the Sambia people, with whom he has been working since 1974. Stoller was instrumental not only in supporting LGBT analytic candidates, but in encouraging a more tolerant face-to-face inclusive attitude in research, education, mentoring, and the general Weltanschauung of psychiatry.

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Authors & Contributors
Sharman Levinson
Stéphanie Pache
Sutton, Katie
Escoffier, Jeffrey
Alain Giami
Schechter, Kate
Concepts
Psychiatry
Psychoanalysis
Sexuality
Mental disorders and diseases
Clinical psychology
Psychology
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Edinburgh
Argentina
Germany
Canada
Institutions
National Health Service (Great Britain)
Collège de France, Paris
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