Ray Blanchard
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| Born | Ray Milton Blanchard October 9, 1945 Hammonton, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Residence | Canada |
| Citizenship | United States, Canada |
| Fields | Psychology, sexology |
| Institutions |
University of Toronto Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto |
| Alma mater |
University of Pennsylvania University of Illinois |
| Known for | Phallometry, paraphilias, gender dysphoria, sexual orientation |
Ray Milton Blanchard (/ˈblæntʃərd/; born October 9, 1945) is an American-Canadian sexologist, best known for his research studies on pedophilia, transsexualism, and sexual orientation. He has also published research studies on phallometry and several paraphilias, including transvestism and autoerotic asphyxia.
Blanchard was born in Hammonton, New Jersey. He received his A.B. in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1967 and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1973. He conducted postdoctoral research at Dalhousie University until 1976, when he accepted a position as a clinical psychologist at the Ontario Correctional Institute in Brampton, Ontario, Canada (a suburb of Toronto). There, Blanchard met Kurt Freund, who became his mentor. Freund was conducting research in chemical castration for sex offenders. In 1980, he joined the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry (now part of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health). In 1995 Blanchard was named Head of Clinical Sexology Services in the Law and Mental Health Programme of the CAMH, where he served until 2010. He is an adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He served on the American Psychiatric Association DSM-IV Subcommittee on Gender Identity Disorders and was named to the DSM-5 committee. According to the Web of Science, Blanchard's scientific articles have been cited more than 1800 times, with an h-index of 27.
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