Thomas Domenici

Thomas Domenici was the first openly identified gay male accepted for training (1980) in the University of Southern California Counseling Psychology program.  After receiving his Ph.D. (1984) he did a post-doctoral fellowship at USC/LA County Psychiatric Hospital working with inpatient and outpatient children who had been sexually abused.  Subsequently, he did a two year fellowship at a private clinic working with incest perpetrators and child molesters.  In 1989, he was the first openly identified gay male accepted for training at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.  He was a co-editor of the anthology Disorienting Sexuality: Reappraisal of Sexual Identities: 1995, Routledge, New York.