Susan Bradley

Susan Jane Bradley is a Canadian psychiatrist best known for her work on gender identity disorder in children.cite web |url= http://www.apa.org/monitor/apr04/gender.html |accessdate=2008-06-17 |author=Dingfelder, Sadie F. |title = Gender bender |date = April 2004 |work = Monitor on Psychology, Vol. 35, No. 4] 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 SJ, Blanchard R, Coates SW, Green R, Levine SB, Meyer-Bahlburg HFL, Pauly IB, Zucker KJ (1991). Interim report of the DSM-IV Subcommittee on Gender Identity Disorders. "Archives of Sexual Behavior" Volume 20, Number 4 / August, 1991]

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 served on the American Psychiatric Association DSM-IV Subcommittee on Gender Identity Disorders.Bradley SJ, Blanchard R, Coates SW, Green R, Levine SB, Meyer-Bahlburg HFL, Pauly IB, Zucker KJ (1991). Interim report of the DSM-IV Subcommittee on Gender Identity Disorders. "Archives of Sexual Behavior" Volume 20, Number 4 / August, 1991] Because her therapeutic intervention for gender identity disorder in children is controversial, a 2007 celebration honoring Bradley's career was crashed by transgender protesters.Gagnon, Audrey (April 12, 2007). [http://www.xtra.ca/public/viewstory.aspx?AFF_TYPE=3&STORY_ID=2873&PUB_TEMPLATE_ID=1 Boys will be girls: Gender identity clinic event disrupted by trans activists.] ‘’Xtra!’’]

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'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.

elected publications

According to the Web of Science Bradley has published over 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals. These articles and her books have been cited over 700 times, giving her an h-index of 16. [Web of Science, retrieved July 1, 2008.]

* "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

External links

* [http://www.sickkids.ca/HSCdirectory/personalprofile.asp?pID=2215&sID=162&s=Departments&ssID=31&ss=Psychiatry Susan J. Bradley profile] via Hospital for Sick Children