An interview with Ubaldo Leli, MD

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Notes

1 Editor’s Note: “Daddy.”

2 Editor’s Note: Italian students go to medical school out of Liceo and the course of study runs for six years—a combination of the US equivalent of pre-med courses and medical school courses.

3 Editor’s Note: See Merlino, J. (2001). An interview with Bertram H. Schaffner, M.D. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy, 5(1):85–99.

4 Editor’s Note: See Sbordone, A. J. (2003). An interview with Charles Silverstein, PhD. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy, 7(4):49–61.

5 Editor’s Note: See Drescher, J. (2019). An interview with Kenneth Lewes, PhD. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health 23(3):367–373.

6 Editor’s Note: See Bayer, R. (1987). Homosexuality and American Psychiatry: The Politics of Diagnosis. Princeton University Press.

7 Editor’s Note: See Drescher, J. (2002). Don’t ask, don’t tell: A gay man’s perspective on the psychoanalytic training experience between 1973 and 1991. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy, 6(1):45–55.

8 Editor’s Note: See Lynch, P. E. (2006). An interview with Ralph E. Roughton, MD. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy, 10(2):105–116.

9 Editor’s Note: See Vaughan, S. (2002). Discussion of “Being gay and becoming a psychoanalyst: Across three generations.” Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy, 6(1):67–75.

10 Editor’s Note: See Leli, U. (2002). The experience of undergoing psychoanalytic training as an openly gay candidate—A personal note. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy, 6(1):57–65.

11 Editor’s Note: A decade later, Dr. Kernberg wrote an update on his views of homosexuality for this journal, There, for the first time, he acknowledged that one could be gay and neurotic, a neurotic character being the highest level of personality development any person could achieve in Dr. Kernberg’s nosology of personality structures. See Kernberg, O. F. (2002). Unresolved issues in the psychoanalytic theory of homosexuality and bisexuality. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy, 6(1)9–27.