Glen O. Gabbard

Glen Owens Gabbard (born 1949) is an American psychiatrist known for authoring professional teaching texts for the field. He is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, and is also training and supervising analyst at the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies in Houston.

His father was Eastern Illinois University Theatre Arts Department Chair E. Glendon Gabbard, and his mother was actress Lucina Paquet Gabbard. Gabbard attended Northwestern University and the University of Texas, and earned his Bachelor's Degree in Theater from Eastern Illinois University. He then earned his M.D. from Rush Medical College in Chicago in 1975. He completed his psychiatry residency at the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry in Topeka, Kansas. He then served on the staff of the Menninger Clinic for 26 years and served as Director of the Menninger Hospital from 1989 to 1994 and Director of the Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis from 1996 to 2001. In 2001, he moved to Baylor College of Medicine, where he served as Professor of Psychiatry and Brown Foundation Chair of Psychoanalysis until 2011.

Gabbard has authored or edited 27 books and over 320 papers, including books on professional boundary violations, physician health, and media depictions of psychiatry and mental illness in films with his brother Krin. He was Joint Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and was Associate Editor of the American Journal of Psychiatry.

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