Walt Odets

Selected Articles

Notice: Walt Odets is fully retired from psychotherapy practice and is not accepting new or returning clients. This website is maintained for archival and informational purposes only.

The listed articles have appeared in several periodicals, including The Journal of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA), Focus: A Guide to AIDS Research and Counseling (UCSF), POZ, The San Francisco Sentinel, Harper’s Magazine, Out, AIDS & Public Policy Journal, and Hatherleigh Continuing Education Press.

On the listings below, availability of the full text on this site is indicated by [Full Text] at the end of the listing.

Prevention for Positives: The New CDC Initiative, POZ magazine, January, 2004. [Full Text]

Some Thoughts on Gay Male Relationships and American Society, the Journal of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, Vol. 2, No.1, 1998. [Full Text]

Hope Against Hope: It’s Time We Did Real Prevention, POZ magazine, November, 1997. [Full Text ]

Risk Appraisal and HIV Prevention, Focus: A Guide to AIDS Research and Counseling, Vol. 11, No. 10, The AIDS Health Project of the University of California at San Francisco, 1996. [Full Text]

Oral Sex: A Peculiarly American Problem, the San Francisco Sentinel, July, 1995. [Full Text]

The Fatal Mistakes of AIDS Education, Harper’s Magazine, May, 1995.

Surviving Loss, Out magazine, September, 1995.

Why We Stopped Doing Primary Prevention for Gay Men in 1985, AIDS & Public Policy Journal, Vol. 9, No. 4., 1995. [Full Text – Part 1 & 2]

Young Gay and Bisexual Men , a paper prepared for the Dallas Prevention Summit of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association , 1994. [Full Text]

Survivor Guilt in HIV-Negative Gay Men, in Hatherleigh Continuing Education for Psychologists, Vol. 4, No. 15, Hatherleigh Press , New York, 1994. [Full Text]

AIDS Education and Harm Reduction for Gay Men: Psychological Approaches for the 21st Century, AIDS & Public Policy Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1., 1994. [Full Text]

The Psychology of Unsafe Sex: The Human Issues and Politics Among Gay Men in the United States, a poster presentation at the Eighth International Conference on AIDS,  Amsterdam, 1992.

The Secret Epidemic, Outlook: National Lesbian and Gay Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 2., 1991.

The Homosexualization of AIDS, Focus: A Guide to AIDS Research and Counseling, Vol. 5, No. 11, the AIDS Health Project of the University of California and the San Francisco Department of Public Health, 1990.

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