Walt Odets
Selected Talks
These presentations have been made to a broad range of groups, including The Gay Men’s Health Summit, the California Department of Health Services, the American Psychological Association, the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA), the Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC), the Terrence Higgins Trust, the AIDS Committee of Toronto, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Annual Conference on Social Work and AIDS, the National AIDS Update Conference, the San Francisco Department of Public Health , the American Academy of Psychotherapists, the Seattle-King County Department of Public Health, the State of New York Department of Health, the Gay and Lesbian Addiction Studies Conference of City University of New York, the Yale University Institution for Social and Policy Studies, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), the National Gay and Lesbian Health Conference, and the American Psychiatric Association.
On the links below, availability of the full text on this site is indicated by [Full Text] at the end of the listing.
A Human Model for Substance Use and Abuse, the Gay Men’s Health Summit, Boulder Colorado, 2002. [Full Text]
Staying Negative in a Positive World: HIV Prevention Strategies that Work, the Symposium for HIV Prevention Professionals, Office of AIDS, California Department of Health Services, April, 1998. [Full Text]
Innovation, Integration and Collaboration in the New Age of AIDS, the Annual Conference of the American Psychological Association, October, 1998.
Ecology or Psychology? Evaluating Efforts to Stem the AIDS Epidemic, a one hour KQED Forum panel discussion, 1997.
Gay Male Relationships: Making Family, the Annual Symposium of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, 1997. [Full Text ]
Walt Odets on Primary Prevention for Gay Men, a half-hour filmed interview produced by the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, New York City, 1997.
The Psychological Politics of AIDS within Gay Communities, the Acting on AIDS conference organized by the Terrence Higgins Trust and the International Center for the Arts, London, 1996. [Full Text]
Gay Men and Interpersonal Guilt, Psychoanalytic Perspectives on AIDS, The Friends of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute Annual Lecture, 1996.
Relapse, Practical Approaches for Health Care, the Sixth Annual Conference of The Toronto Hospital, The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Toronto and The AIDS Committee of Toronto, 1996. [Full Text ]
Primary Prevention for Gay Men, the Division of HIV/AIDS of the Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, 1996.
Primary Prevention for Gay Men: Public Health Risk, the California Department of Health Services Office of AIDS annual Surveillance and Epidemiology Conference, San Jose California, 1996.
Why Primary Prevention for Gay Men was Stopped in 1985: Public Health and AIDS’ Largest Risk Population, the California Department of Health Services Office of AIDS, 1995.
Gay Male Culture, Homophobia and HIV Prevention Efforts, the Seventh Annual Conference on Social Work and AIDS, Chicago, 1995. [Full Text]
What is Primary Prevention for Gay Men? at The Seventh National AIDS Update Conference, San Francisco, 1995.
Defining Primary Prevention for Gay Men, grand rounds, the San Francisco Department of Public Health, 1995
Facing the Chaos of AIDS: Bridging Hope and Despair, a panel presentation for the Institute and Conference of the American Academy of Psychotherapists , 1995.
The State of the Gay and Bisexual Communities , the Dallas Prevention Summit of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, 1994. [Full Text]
AIDS Education: An American Decision, the Dallas Prevention Summit of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, 1994. [Full Text]
Gay Male Experience: Psychosocial Issues and Psychosocial Barriers to Risk-reduction in MSM, a workshop, both for Reinventing HIV Prevention for Gay Men, a conference of the Seattle-King County Department of Public Health , Seattle, Washington, 1994. [Full Text]
Still at Risk: Rethinking HIV Prevention for Gay Men, the Fifth Annual Statewide HIV/AIDS Policy Conference of the State of New York Department of Health, 1994
Erotophobia and the AIDS Epidemic, a talk, and Substance Use and Abuse: Gay Lives in the Epidemic, a workshop, the Ninth Annual Gay and Lesbian Addiction Studies Conference, City University of New York, 1994. [Full Text]
Being HIV-Negative in the Age of AIDS, the Yale University Institution for Social and Policy Studies, 1994.
HIV-Negative Gay Men in the AIDS Epidemic: Issues of Public Health, the Stanford Medical School, 1994.
Sex in the Age of AIDS, and Being HIV-Negative in the Age of AIDS, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute annual meeting, Durham, NC, 1993. [Full Text]
What is Wrong with Our AIDS Education? at the Sixth National AIDS Update Conference, San Francisco, 1993.
What Has Gone Wrong with AIDS Prevention and What We Can Do About It, the National Gay and Lesbian Health Conference, Houston, 1993.
Mid-Life Developmental Issues for Gay Men in the Age of AIDS, the 146th Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, San Francisco, 1993.
Psychotherapy with Gay Men in the Age of AIDS: Psychosocial Considerations, the 24th Annual Mid-Winter Convention of the American Psychological Association, San Diego, 1993.
The Psychological Impact of AIDS on Uninfected Gay and Bi-Sexual Men, the Sixth International Conference on AIDS, San Francisco, 1990. [Full Text ]
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