Susan Coates

Susan W. Coates (born 1940) is an American psychologist best known for her work on gender identity disorder in children (GIDC).Bryant K (2006). Making Gender Identity Disorder of Childhood: Historical Lessons for Contemporary Debates. "Sexuality Research & Social Policy", 3(3), 23-39.]

Career

Coates earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from New York University. In the 1970s Coates began publishing on Field dependence-independence (FDI) using Herman Witkin's Preschool Embedded Figures Test.Coates S (1972). Preschool Embedded Figures Test. Palo Alto, GA: Consulting Psychologists Press] This led to work on cognitive and behavioral sex differences in humans.Coates S, Lord M, Jakabovics E (1975). Field dependence-independence, social-non-social play and sex differences in pre-school children. "Percept Mot Skills". Feb 1975 40:1, pp. 195-202]

Coates served as Director of the Childhood Gender Identity Service at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center from 1980 to 1997. Coates said of her therapeutic intervention for gender identity disorder in children, "With therapy, younger kids usually come to accept their own gender and feel good about their temperament. When we go back to evaluate them three years or so after therapy, they don't have cross-gender fantasies anymore, or often don't remember them. But if you don't treat it until 9 or 10, it's much harder to turn around. And beyond age 12 or so, there's a good chance they're on course to become a transsexual as adults." Coates noted that maternal trauma when the child was two or three was often a factorGoleman, Daniel (March 22, 1994). [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9901E0DA153CF931A15750C0A962958260 The 'Wrong' Sex: A New Definition Of Childhood Pain] . "New York Times"] and that five to thirty times as many boys are treated for GIDC.Coates S, Zucker KJ (1992). Gender Identity Disorders in Children. In Kestenbaum CJ, Williams DT (Eds.) "Handbook of clinical assessment of children and adolescents" NYU Press. ISBN 0814746284]

Coates is a member of the American Psychological Association. She 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]

Coates testified in the 1993 child custody trial between Woody Allen and Mia Farrow. Span, Paula (May 4, 1993). Courtroom Notebook; Here Comes the Judgment!; As the Allen-Farrow Trial Ends, an Early Verdict on the Principals. "Washington Post"] She had had sessions with their son Satchel between 1990 an 1992.Grimes, William (March 31, 1993). [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE0D7103FF932A05750C0A965958260 Farrow's Lawyer Takes Aim at Doctor's Judgment.] "New York Times"] Marks, Peter (April 4, 1993). [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CEFDB153CF937A35757C0A965958260 Reporter's notebook: Therapists in Allen Case Often Seem Like Family] . "New York Times"]

In 1997, Coates was founding Co-Director of the Parent-Infant Program at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She held that position until 2003.

Immediately following the September 11, 2001 attacks, Coates provided mental health services to children and their parents at the Family Assistance Center set up by Disaster Psychiatry Outreach at Pier 94 in New York City.Staff report (October 10, 2005). [http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/5 Trauma in Children An Expert Interview With Susan Coates, PhD.] "Medscape"] She is an editor of the 2003 book "September 11: Trauma and Human Bonds".

elected publications

*Coates SW (1985). Extreme boyhood femininity: Overview and new research findings. In Ruth Corn, Zira DeFries, Richard C. Friedman, eds. "Sexuality: New perspectives". Greenwood Press ISBN 9780313242076

*Coates SW, Person ES (1986). Extreme Boyhood Femininity: Isolated Behavior or Pervasive Disorder? "J Am Acad Child Psychiatry". 1985 Nov;24(6):702-9.

*Coates SW (1990). Ontogenesis of Boyhood Gender Identity Disorder. "J. Amer. Acad. Psychoanal.", 18:414-438.

*Coates SW, Friedman RC, Wolfe S (1991). The Etiology of Boyhood Gender Identity Disorder: A Model for Integrating Temperament, Development, and Psychodynamics. "Psychoanal. Dial.", 1:481-523.

*Zucker KJ, Lozinski JA, Bradley SJ, Doering RW (1992). Sex-Typed Responses in the Rorschach Protocols of Children With Gender Identity Disorder. "Journal of Personality Assessment", Volume 58, Issue 2 April 1992 , pages 295 - 310

*Zucker KJ, Green R, Coates S, Zuger B, Cohen-Kettenis PT, Zecca GM, Lertora V, Money J, Hahn-Burke S, Bradley SJ, Blanchard R. Sibling sex ratio of boys with gender identity disorder. "J Child Psychol Psychiatry". 1997 Jul;38(5):543-51.

*Coates SW, Rosenthal J, Schechter DS, eds. (2003). "September 11: Trauma and Human Bonds". Hillside , NJ : The Analytic Press. ISBN 088163381X

*Coates SW (2005). Having a Mind of One's Own and Holding the Other in Mind: Commentary on Paper by Peter Fonagy and Mary Target (1998). Mahwah, NJ: Analytic Press.

*Schechter DS, Coates SW (2006). Relationally and developmentally focused interventions with young children and their caregivers affected by the events of 9/11. In Y. Neria, R. Gorss, R. D. Marshall & E. Susser (Eds.), "September 11, 2001: Treatment, Research and Public Mental Health in the Wake of a Terrorist Attack" (pp. 402-427). New York: Cambridge University Press.

*Schechter DS, Coots T, Zeanah CH, Davies M, Coates SW, Trabka KA, "et al." (2005). Maternal mental representations of the child in an inner-city clinical sample: Violence-related posttraumatic stress and reflective functioning. "Attachment & Human Development", 7(3), 313-331.

*Schechter DS, Myers MM, Brunelli SA, Coates SW, Zeanah CH Jr, Davies M, "et al." (2006). Traumatized mothers can change their minds about their toddlers: Understanding how a novel use of videofeedback supports positive change of maternal attributions. "Infant Mental Health Journal", 27(5), 429-447.

*Schechter DS, Zygmunt A, Coates SW, Davies M, Trabka KA, McCaw J, "et al." (2007). Caregiver traumatization adversely impacts young children's mental representations on the MacArthur Story Stem Battery. "Attachment & Human Development", 9(3), 187-205.

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External links

* [http://www.columbiapsychoanalytic.org/ Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research]