ABSTRACT
We are psychiatrists-psychoanalysts who have collaborated in teaching and scholarship for more than a decade. Before becoming a team, each of us carried out research on the biological and behavioral aspects of human sexuality. Dr. Friedman’s 1988 book Male Homosexuality: A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspective helped revise traditional psychoanalytic paradigms of sexual orientation. Dr. Downey, while working on an NIMH Career Investigator Grant, was the first to demonstrate that the hormonal profiles of lesbians and heterosexual women did not differ.
