Margaret Nichols

For the American silent film star, see Marguerite Nichols.

Margaret E. Nichols (born 1947) is an American psychologist and sex therapist who specializes in sexual minorities and people with HIV. Nichols was an early advocate for people with HIV/AIDS in the United States, with a focus on developing care protocols in suburban communities.^[1][2][3]

Life and career

After teaching at The New School,^[4] Nichols received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1981 and completed her postdoctoral sex therapy certification at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Nichols founded the Institute for Personal Growth (IPG) in 1983.

In 1985 she and IPG staff created a non-profit that became the Hyacinth AIDS Foundation, the first and largest AIDS service organization in New Jersey.^[5] Nichols served as the first Director of the Hyacinth AIDS Foundation from 1986 to 1988.^[6][7]

Nichols also helped create the Women's Center of Monmouth County, NJ, one of the state’s first battered women's shelters. She is a member of the American Psychological Association and the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists.

Much of Nichols' published work focuses on women,^[8] specifically in the lesbian, bisexual ^[9] and BDSM communities.

Selected publications

• Nichols M (1987). Lesbian Sexuality: Issues And Developing Theory and Doing Sex Therapy With Lesbians: Bending A Heterosexual Paradigm To Fit a Gay Life-style. The Boston Lesbian Psychologies Collective (eds.) Lesbian Psychologies: Explorations and Challenges. University of Illinois Press, ISBN 9780252014048

• Nichols M (1988). Low Sexual Desire in Lesbian Couples. In Leiblum and Rosen (eds.) Sexual Desire Disorders. Guilford Press, ISBN 9780898627145

• Nichols M (1988). Bisexuality in Women: Myths, Realities, and Implications for Therapy. In Cole and Rothblum (eds.) Women and Sex Therapy, Closing the Circle of Sexual Knowledge. Harrington Park Press, ISBN 9780866568081

• Nichols M (1990). Lesbian Relationships: Implications for the Study of Sexuality and Gender. In McWhirter, Sanders and Reinisch (eds.) Homosexuality/Heterosexuality. Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780195052053

• Nichols M (1990). Women and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome: Issues For Prevention. In Voeller, Reinisch, and Gottlieb (eds.) AIDS and Sex: An Integrated Biomedical and Biobehavorial Approach. Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780195069099

• Nichols M (1994). Therapy With Bisexual Women: Working On The Edge of Emerging Cultural and Personal Identities. In Mirkin MP (ed.) Women In Context, Toward a Feminist Reconstruction of Psychotherapy. Guilford Press, ISBN 0898620953

• Nichols M (1995). Sexual Desire Disorder in Lesbian-Feminist Couple: The Intersection of Therapy and Politics. In Rosen and Leiblum (eds.) Case Studies in Sex Therapy. Guilford Press, ISBN 9780898628487

• Nichols M (2002). Psychology And BDSM: Pathology Or Individual Difference? New Jersey Psychologist, 2002.

• Nichols M (2004). Rethinking Lesbian Bed Death. Journal of the British Association for Sexual and Relationship Therapy, Vol. 19, No. 4, November 2004.

• Nichols M (2005). Sexual Function in Lesbians and Lesbian Relationships. In Goldstein, Meston, Davis and Traish (eds.) Women's Sexual Function and Dysfunction: Study, Diagnosis and Treatment. Taylor & Francis, ISBN 9781842142639

• Nichols M (2006). Psychotherapeutic Issues With "Kinky" Clients: Clinical Problems, Yours and Theirs. In Moser and Kleinplatz (eds.) Sadomasochism: Powerful Pleasures. Haworth Press, ISBN 9781560236399

• Nichols M (2006). Therapy with sexual minorities: Queering practice. In Leiblum and Rosen (eds.) Principles and Practice of Sex Therapy, Fourth Edition. Guilford Press, ISBN 9781593853495

• Nichols M, Shernoff M (2007). Therapy With Sexual Minorities: Queering Practice. In Sandra Leiblum (ed.) Principles and Practice of Sex Therapy, Fourth Edition. Guilford Press, ISBN 9781593853495

References

1. ^ Rovner, Sandy (June 9, 1987). The Epidemic's Course: Women and Children Last? Washington Post
2. ^ Gutis, Philip S. (November 17, 1986). Fear slows AIDS fight in suburbs. New York Times
3. ^ Staff report (Dec 6, 1987). AIDS complicates homeless struggle. Associated Press
4. ^ Staff report (March 3, 1969). Ex-User Teaches Course on Drug Addiction. New York Times
5. ^ Cassidy, William P. (January 1, 2000). The politicizing of AIDS. Newspaper Research Journal
6. ^ Nichols M (January 26, 1986). New Jersey Opinion; Bringing the terror of AIDS down to a human level. New York Times
7. ^ Schmitt, Eric (August 3, 1987). Suburbs Straining to Build Services for AIDS Victims. New York Times
8. ^ Campbell, Carol Ann (March 18, 2008). The little pill that launched a second sexual revolution. Newhouse News Service
9. ^ Staff report (June 1, 2004). Would you hook up with a woman? Cosmopolitan

External links

• Institute for Personal Growth
• Hyacinth AIDS Foundation

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