JAPA Author Interview: Griffin Hansbury on "The Masculine Vaginal"

Tessa Breithaupt and Dr. Gregory Rizzolo interviews Griffin Hansbury about his paper "The Masculine Vaginal: Working With Queer Men’s Embodiment at the Transgender Edge" This paper was first published in 2018 in Volume 65, Issue 6 of JAPA. You can access the paper via SAGE publications at: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/.... Griffin Hansbury is a psychoanalyst, licensed clinical social worker (LCSW-R), and award-winning author, known for his work in trauma recovery, LGBTQ+ mental health, and psychoanalytic theory. He has been practicing since 2001 in both private practice and community mental health, offering relational, psychodynamic therapy for individuals, couples, and group. Tessa Breithaupt is based in New York and is a JAPA social media intern. Dr. Gregory Rizzolo serves as a faculty member at the Institute for Clinical Social Work. He has given numerous presentations across the United States and in the United Kingdom. Many of Dr. Rizzolo’s writings have been published and he was awarded the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Paper Prize in 2017. Dr. Rizzolo earned his PhD in Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, United Kingdom, his master's in counseling psychology from Northwestern University and his undergrad education was earned at the University of Chicago in Classical Studies. Dr. Rizzolo received his psychoanalytic training at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute 2020. The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA) is a peer-reviewed, bimonthly publication and one of the world's most respected forums for psychoanalytic scholarship. Published on behalf of APsA, JAPA covers clinical innovation, emerging theory, interdisciplinary studies, and professional development. Learn more about JAPA at APsA at https://apsa.org/japa/.