Dr. Matthew
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Science |
| Occupation | Health Psychologist |
| Location | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Introduction | I'm a clinical psychologist in the San Francisco Bay Area with an interest in the broader areas of mental and physical health among the LGBTQ community, as well as the interaction between minority stressors and health behaviors. My primary employment is as a researcher, though I do practice clinically. As the primary goal of this blog is introspection and musings on current research, it is not intended to provide or replace professional medical or psychological treatment. |
| Interests | I research a variety of topics related to health behaviors and risk associated with HIV, as well as the impact that prejudice, stigma, and self-stigma have on the LGBTQ community (though most my work focuses on gay men). I'm also interested in the psychological benefits of contemplative practices, such as Zen Buddhist meditation. |
| Favorite movies | Autumn Sonata, Wild Strawberries, Persona, anything else Bergman, My Own Private Idaho, Blue Velvet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Mysterious Skin, The Living End, Tarnation, Prospero's Books, Fire, Water, Earth (I <3 Deepa Mehta), Donnie Darko, I <3 Huckabees, The Pillowbook, Edward II (Jarmann), Me and You and Everyone We Know, Happiness, The House of Yes, Blue, White, Red, Ma Vie en Rose, Muriel's Wedding, Secretary |
| Favorite music | Xiu Xiu, Broken Social Scene, Mazzy Star, Azure Ray, Morrissey, Pinback, Team Sleep, Postal Service, Kings of Leon, Feist, Stars, John Frusciante, the Black Eyes, Belle & Sebastian, the Butchies, Le Tigre, Sleater-Kinney, Elliott Smith, Sonic Youth, Kings of Leon and more. |
| Favorite books | Paradise Lost, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, William Blake, Dennis Cooper, Chris Kraus (Everyone should read "I Love Dick"), Nella Larson, Zora Neale Hurston, Chuck Pahluniak, Tom Spanbauer, Jean Genet, Mary Gaitskill, Haruki Murakami, Banana Yoshimoto, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Eduardo Galeano, Anne Carson, Colm Toibin, Jeanette Winterson, then in terms of theorists, I love Sedgwick, Deleuze, Butler, Baudrillard, Lacan, Foucault, Barthes, and more traditionally, Nabakov, Frye, etc. I'm pretty open, from classics to contemporary, so long as it's good. I also have a soft spot for Russian lit. - Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Pushkin, Gogol (especially Gogol!), Lermontov. Also like some Buddhist authors: Ayya Khema, Nyaponika Thera, Bhante Gunaratana, Stephen Batchelor |