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Masters Medicine University of Pennsylvania
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According to Wikipedia, Harold I. Lief was an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He was famous as an advocate of sex education. Lief is credited with the introduction in the DSM of the "inhibited sexual desire". Early life and education Lief, who was born in Brooklyn, attended the University of Michigan and graduated from the New York University School of Medicine in 1942. Lief's psychoanalytic training was at Columbia University.

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Harold Lief's Published Works

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Plasma testosterone level and sexual behavior of couples (1978) (144)
Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality (1977) (133)
Homosexuality: a psychoanalytic study. (1963) (110)
The Relation of Plasma Androgen Levels to Sexual Behaviors and Attitudes of Women1 (1982) (101)
Marital therapy from a psychiatric perspective: an overview. (1975) (85)
The New Sex Therapy: Active Treatment of Sexual Dysfunctions (1976) (80)
The Psychological Basis of Medical Practice (1964) (75)
Orgasm in the postoperative transsexual (1993) (67)
The Sex Knowledge and Attitude Test (SKAT). (1979) (63)
A New Measure of Adolescent Sexuality: SKAT-A (1990) (55)
Sexuality -- knowledge and attitudes. (1975) (49)
Retractors of false memories: The evolution of pseudo-memories (1995) (47)
The relationship of plasma estradiol to sexual behavior in young women. (1978) (46)
Low dropout rate in a psychiatric clinic. Special reference to psychotherapy and social class. (1961) (40)
Sexual Behavior in Adolescence (1983) (34)
Masturbatory attitudes, knowledge, and experience: Data from the sex knowledge and attitude test (SKAT) (1976) (34)
Clinical profile of experience with 130 consecutive cases of impotent men. (1979) (30)
The two-professional marriage: a new conflict syndrome. (1975) (27)
Reproductive Hormone Levels and Sexual Behaviors of Young Couples During the Menstrual Cycle (1977) (22)
Sex education in medicine (1976) (22)
New developments in the sex education of the physician. (1970) (20)
Ego-dystonic homosexuality. (1986) (19)
Bupropion treatment of depression to assist smoking cessation. (1996) (17)
Preparing the physician to become a sex counselor and educator. (1969) (16)
The Relationship of Plasma Estradiol Level to Sexual Behavior in Young Women (1978) (14)
From Refusal to Reconciliation: Family Relationships After an Accusation Based on Recovered Memories (2004) (13)
Satisfaction and Distress: Disjunctions in the Components of Sexual Response (2001) (12)
Sensory association in the selection of phobic objects. (1955) (12)
Subprofessional training in mental health. (1966) (11)
The Eighth Generation: Cultures and Personalities of New Orleans Negroes. (1960) (11)
Raynaud's Disease: Psychogenic Factors and Psychotherapy (1953) (10)
The effects of taraxein on a patient in analysis. (1957) (9)
Sexual problems in medical practice (1981) (9)
Effect of the research process on human sexual behavior. (1981) (9)
A Model of Marital Interaction (1981) (8)
Silence as intervention in psychotherapy (1962) (8)
Sex education in medical schools. (1971) (8)
The relationship of sexual adjustment and related sexual behaviors and attitudes to marital adjustment (1982) (8)
The eighth generation grows up : cultures and personalities of New Orleans Negroes (1964) (8)
Psychoendocrinologic Studies in a Male with Cyclic Changes in Sexuality (1962) (8)
SEX EDUCATION OF MEDICAL STUDENTS AND DOCTORS. (1965) (7)
The age 30 crisis and the 7-year-itch (1977) (6)
2. An Atypical Stereotype of the Negroes' Social Worlds (1962) (5)
The physician and family planning. (1966) (5)
Questions raised by the controversy over recovered memories of incest. (2003) (4)
Sexology : sexual biology, behavior and therapy : selected papers of the 5th World Congress of Sexology, Jerusalem, Israel, June 21-26, 1981 (1982) (4)
Current Trends in the Description and Analysis of Behavior (1960) (4)
Sex and the medical educator. (1968) (4)
Department of Psychiatry and Neurology Tulane University School of Medicine 1430 Tulane Avenue New Orleans 12, Louisiana (1958) (3)
The Construction of False Memory Syndrome: A Transactional Model (1997) (3)
What medical schools teach about sex. (1963) (3)
The prediction of behavior from adolescence to adulthood. (1961) (3)
COMMENTARY ON DR. IAN STEVENSON'S “THE EVIDENCE OF MAN'S SURVIVAL AFTER DEATH” (1977) (2)
Panel discussion on functional disturbances of the gastrointestinal tract. (1959) (2)
PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESS IN MEDICAL STUDENTS (1962) (2)
Sex Knowledge and Attitude Test (2014) (2)
History of psychologic treatments (2005) (2)
Sexual Functions in Men and Their Disturbances (2015) (1)
Patients Versus Therapists: Legal Actions Over Recovered Memory Therapy (1999) (1)
Psychogenic factors and psychotherapy in Raynaud's disease. (1951) (1)
Boundary Crossings: Sexual Misconduct of Clergy (2001) (1)
Medical aspects of human sexuality : 750 questions answered by 500 authorities (1975) (1)
Sexual Transgressions of Clergy (1992) (1)
In Memoriam Mary Calderone, MD, MPH (1998) (0)
Sex in our Changing World (1948) (0)
Alice or little Hans in Wonderland. (1967) (0)
The psychosomatic point of view with special reference to duodenal ulcer. (1959) (0)
Training in broad spectrum psychotherapy. (1960) (0)
Can a Book Fill the Gaps in Sex (1984) (0)
Human sexuality training for family planning personnel. (1975) (0)
Marital Therapy in Psychiatric Practice (1982) (0)
Symposium on the psychosomatic aspects of some digestive diseases (1958) (0)
The pediatrician's role in handling parental reactions to the sudden death of a child. (1952) (0)
Should patients be presented in person? (1956) (0)
Sex in Older People. (1971) (0)
Letters to the Editor (1991) (0)
Alan F. Guttmacher, M.D.: his role in teaching human sexuality. (1975) (0)
International research in sexology: Selected papers from the fifth world congress (1984) (0)
The Importance of Marriage in Mental Health (1982) (0)
Sexual Health Services for the Family (1983) (0)
Positive Views on Minors' Sexuality (1971) (0)
Psychological aspects of prejudice with special reference to desegregation. (1958) (0)
AFTER OFFICE HOURS (1963) (0)
Generic and specific aspects of phobic behavior. (1968) (0)
Sexology. (1975) (0)
Psychotherapy of medical students. (1967) (0)
Sexual behavior: significant changes. (1972) (0)
SIECUS and Sex Education (1969) (0)
SOME DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS IN PATIENTS WITH A PSYCHIATRIC LABEL (1954) (0)
Reply to "Confusing the actor with the act". (1991) (0)
Attitudes toward and definitions of having sex. (1999) (0)
Our Readers Write (1955) (0)
Sensitivity to feelings. (1977) (0)
The Psychological Basis of Medical Practice: By 52 Authors. (1963) (0)

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