Richard Pillard

Richard Colestock Pillard (born 11 October 1933) is a professor of psychiatry at the Boston University School of Medicine. He was the first openly gay psychiatrist in the United States. ^[1]

Early life and family

Pillard was born in Springfield, Ohio. He briefly attended Swarthmore College before transferring to Antioch College, where his father Basil H. Pillard was an English Professor. ^[2] Pillard received his B.A. from Antioch. ^[3]

Chandler Burr reported that Pillard jokes "he is uniquely equipped to investigate whether homosexuality has a biological basis: he, his brother, and his sister are gay, and Pillard believes that his father may have been gay. One of Pillard's three daughters from a marriage early in life is bisexual. This family history seems to invite a biological explanation, and it made Pillard start thinking about the origins of sexual orientation." ^[4]

He and biologist James D. Weinrich co-authored a paper which found that homosexuality runs in some families. ^[5]

Publications

• Lane HL, Pillard RC, Hedberg U (2011). The People of the Eye: Deaf Ethnicity and Ancestry. Oxford University Press US, ISBN   978-0-19-975929-3
• Dawood, K; Pillard, RC; Horvath, C; Revelle, W; Bailey, JM (Apr 2000). "Familial aspects of male homosexuality". Arch Sex Behav . 29 (2): 155–63. PMID   10842723.
• Bailey, JM; Pillard, RC; Dawood, K; Miller, MB; Farrer, LA; Trivedi, S; Murphy, RL (Mar 1999). "A family history study of male sexual orientation using three independent samples". Behav Genet . 29 (2): 79–86. doi:10.1023/A:1021652204405. PMID   10405456.
• Pillard, RC; Bailey, JM (Apr 1998). "Human sexual orientation has a heritable component". Hum Biol . 70 (2): 347–65. PMID   9549243.
• Pillard, RC; Bailey, JM (Mar 1995). "A biologic perspective on sexual orientation". Psychiatr Clin North Am . 18 (1): 71–84. PMID   7761309.
• Snyder, PJ; Weinrich, JD; Pillard, RC (Aug 1994). "Personality and lipid level differences associated with homosexual and bisexual identity in men". Arch Sex Behav . 23 (4): 433–51. PMID   7993184.
• Pillard, RC; Rosen, LR; Meyer-Bahlburg, H; et al. (1993). "Psychopathology and social functioning in men prenatally exposed to diethylstilbestrol (DES)". Psychosom Med. 55: 485–91. PMID   8310108.
• Bailey, JM; Pillard, RC; Neale, MC; Agyei, Y (Mar 1993). "Heritable factors influence sexual orientation in women". Arch Gen Psychiatry . 50 (3): 217–23. PMID   8439243.
• Weinrich, JD; Snyder, PJ; Pillard, RC; Grant, I; Jacobson, DL; Robinson, SR; McCutchan, JA (Apr 1993). "A factor analysis of the Klein sexual orientation grid in two disparate samples". Arch Sex Behav . 22 (2): 157–68. PMID   8476335.
• Bailey, JM; Pillard, RC (Dec 1991). "A genetic study of male sexual orientation". Arch Gen Psychiatry . 48 (12): 1089–96. PMID   1845227.
• Tuttle, GE; Pillard, RC (Jun 1991). "Sexual orientation and cognitive abilities". Arch Sex Behav . 20 (3): 307–18. PMID   2059149.
• Pillard, RC; Weinrich, JD (Aug 1986). "Evidence of familial nature of male homosexuality". Arch Gen Psychiatry . 43 (8): 808–12. PMID   3729676.
• Pillard, RC; Poumadere, J; Carretta, RA (Dec 1982). "A family study of sexual orientation". Arch Sex Behav . 11 (6): 511–20. PMID   6760832.
• Pillard, RC; Poumadere, J; Carretta, RA (Oct 1981). "Is homosexuality familial? A review, some data, and a suggestion". Arch Sex Behav . 10 (5): 465–75. PMID   7032464.
• Lane HL, Pillard RC (1978). The Wild Boy of Burundi: a study of an outcast child. Random House, ISBN   978-0-394-41252-8
• Pillard, RC; Fisher, S (1975). "Chlordiazepoxide and phenobarbital in a model anxiety-inducing situation". Compr Psychiatry. 16: 97–101. PMID   1109838.
• Pillard, RC; McNair, DM; Fisher, S (1974). "Does marijuana enhance experimentally induced anxiety?". Psychopharmacologia . 40 (3): 205–10. PMID   4445449.
• Pillard, RC; Rose, RM; Sherwood, M (Sep 1974). "Plasma testosterone levels in homosexual men". Arch Sex Behav. 3 (5): 453–8. PMID   4415098.
• Pillard, RC (Mar 1973). "Shall we allow heroin maintenance?". N Engl J Med . 288 (13): 682–3. doi:10.1056/NEJM197303292881311. PMID   4687260.
• Pillard, RC (Apr 1971). "Authors and editors: mutual responsibility". Am J Psychiatry . 127 (10): 1420–1. PMID   5549943.
• Meyer, RE; Pillard, RC; Shapiro, LM; Mirin, SM (Aug 1971). "Administration of marijuana to heavy and casual marijuana users". Am J Psychiatry . 128 (2): 198–204. PMID   4939591.
• Mirin, SM; Shapiro, LM; Meyer, RE; Pillard, RC; Fisher, S (Mar 1971). "Casual versus heavy use of marijuana: a redefinition of the marijuana problem". Am J Psychiatry . 127 (9): 1134–40. PMID   5100604.
• Pillard, RC (August 1970). "Marihuana". N. Engl. J. Med. 283: 294–303. doi:10.1056/NEJM197008062830606. PMID   4913364.
• Pillard, RC; Fisher, S (Jun 1970). "Aspects of anxiety in dental clinic patients". J Am Dent Assoc . 80 (6): 1331–4. PMID   5266124.
• Pillard, RC; Fisher, S (1967). "Effects of chlordiazepoxide and secobarbital on film-induced anxiety". Psychopharmacologia . 12 (1): 18–23. PMID   6081323.
• McNair, DM; Droppleman, LF; Pillard, RC (Jan 1967). "Differential sensitivity of two palmar sweat measures". Psychophysiology . 3 (3): 280–4. PMID   5341532.
• Globus, GG; Pillard, RC (Fall 1966). "Tausk's Influencing Machine and Kafka's In the Penal Colony". Am Imago . 23 (3): 191–207. PMID   5334128.

References

1. Mass L (1990). Homophobia on the couch: A conversation with Richard Pillard, first openly gay psychiatrist in the United States. in Homosexuality and Sexuality: Dialogues of the Sexual Revolution—Volume I (Gay & Lesbian Studies). Haworth Press, ISBN   0918393892
2. Judson Jerome (Mar., 1958). Departure: Basil Pillard, 1895-1957. College English, Vol. 19, No. 6, Poetry and Professors Issue, p. 240
3. Paul E. Lynch (2003). An Interview with Richard C. Pillard, MD. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy Volume: 7 Issue: 4
4. Burr, Chandler (June 1997). Homosexuality and biology. The Atlantic Monthly
5. Talan, Jamie (August 19, 1986). Of Gays And Gay Siblings. Newsday