Richard Pillard

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Richard Colestock Pillard (born October 11, 1933 in Springfield, Ohio ) is Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University . He was the first openly gay psychiatrist in the United States .

Life and family

Pillard was born in Springfield, Ohio . He briefly attended Swarthmore College before moving to Antioch College in Yellow Springs , where his father, Basil H. Pillard, was Professor of English. From there, Pillard also received his Bachelor's degree (BA). Graduated as a doctor of medicine he obtained from the University of Rochester with an internship at Boston City Hospital .

Pillard married Cornelia Livingston Cromwell in 1958 while on medical school. They got divorced when he was in his mid thirties. Meanwhile, Pillard identifies himself as gay. He has three daughters; his daughter Cornelia Pillard is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia .

job

In his scientific work he mainly devoted himself to the question of the inheritance of sexual orientation. He is co-author of an article on a study that concluded that homosexuality often runs in families. Pillard himself considers this his most important work. The paper won the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality's Hugo Beigel Prize for best paper published in the Journal of Sex Research .

Pillard is also known for a series of studies he co-authored with psychologist J. Michael Bailey that examined the concordance rate of sexual identity in identical twins , dizygoti of the same sex, non-twin siblings of the same sex, and adoptive siblings of the same sex . In all of the studies, they found match rates that are in line with the hypothesis that homosexuality has a significant genetic component. However, the Council for Responsible Genetics and other researchers criticized this work for the fact that Pillard and Bailey selected the subjects for their studies themselves. This problem should be resolved later through further studies.

Publications (selection)

  • GG Globus, RC Pillard: Tausk's Influencing Machine and Kafka's In the Penal Colony. In: American Imago. Volume 23, No. 3, Fall 1966, pp. 191-207, PMID 5334128
  • DM McNair, LF Droppleman, RC Pillard: Differential sensitivity of two palmar sweat measures. In: Psychophysiology . Volume 3, No. 3, January 1967, pp. 280-284, PMID 5341532
  • RC Pillard, S. Fisher: Aspects of anxiety in dental clinic patients. In: Journal of the American Dental Association . Volume 80, No. 6, June 1970, pp. 1331-1334, PMID 5266124
  • RE Meyer, RC Pillard, LM Shapiro, SM Mirin: Administration of marijuana to heavy and casual marijuana users. In: American Journal of Psychiatry. Volume 128, No. 2, August 1971, pp. 198-204, PMID 4939591
  • RC Pillard, DM McNair, S. Fisher: Does marijuana enhance experimentally induced anxiety? In: Psychopharmacology . Volume 40, No. 3, 1974, pp. 205-210, PMID 4445449
  • HL Lane, RC Pillard: Wild Boy of Burundi . A study of an outcast child. Random House, 1978, ISBN 978-0-394-41252-8
  • RC Pillard, J. Poumadere, RA Carretta: Is homosexuality familial? A review, some data, and a suggestion. In: Archives of Sexual Behavior . Volume 10, No. 5, October 1981, pp. 465-475, PMID 7032464
  • RC Pillard, JD Weinrich: Evidence of familial nature of male homosexuality. In: Archives of General Psychiatry . Volume 43, No. 8, August 1986, pp. 808-812, PMID 3729676
  • GE Tuttle, RC Pillard: Sexual orientation and cognitive abilities. In: Archives of Sexual Behavior . Vol. 20, No. 3, June 1991, pp. 307-318, PMID 2059149
  • JM Bailey, RC Pillard, MC Neale, Y. Agyei: Heritable factors influence sexual orientation in women. In: Archives of General Psychiatry . Volume 50, No. 3, March 1993, pp. 217-223, PMID 8439243
  • PJ Snyder, JD Weinrich, RC Pillard: Personality and lipid level differences associated with homosexual and bisexual identity in men. In: Archives of Sexual Behavior . Vol. 23, No. 4, August 1994, pp. 433-451, PMID 7993184
  • JM Bailey, RC Pillard, K. Dawood, MB Miller, LA Farrer, S. Trivedi, RL Murphy: A family history study of male sexual orientation using three independent samples. In: Behavior Genetics. Volume 29, No. 2, March 1999, pp. 79-86, doi : 10.1023 / A: 1021652204405 , PMID 10405456
  • K. Dawood, RC Pillard, C. Horvath, W. Revelle, JM Bailey: Familial aspects of male homosexuality. In: Archives of Sexual Behavior . Vol. 29, No. 2, April 2000, pp. 155-163, PMID 10842723
  • HL Lane, RC Pillard, U. Hedberg: The People of the Eye. Deaf Ethnicity and Ancestry. Oxford University Press US, 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-975929-3

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Judson Jerome: Departure: Basil Pillard, 1895–1957. College English, Volume 19, No. 6, Poetry and Professors Issue, March 1958, p. 240
  2. ^ Paul E. Lynch: An Interview with Richard C. Pillard, MD. In: Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy. Volume 7, No. 4, 2003
  3. ↑ Jamie Talan: Of Gays And Gay Siblings. In: Newsday. August 19, 1986
  4. ^ Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality: Hugo G. Beigel Research Award Recipients , last accessed on October 12, 2018.
  5. ↑ Vicki Lynn Eaklor: Queer America: A GLBT History of the 20th Century. ABC-CLIO , 2002, p. 227, ISBN 9780313337499
personal data
SURNAME Pillard, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pillard, Richard C .; Pillard, Richard Colestock
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Springfield, Ohio