Gerald Davison
American psychologist and professor
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Gerald C. Davison completed a bachelor of arts in social relations at Harvard College in 1961. He spent a Fulbright year in Germany at University of Freiburg in 1961-1962. He obtained his Ph.D. in psychology at Stanford University in 1965.
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In 1973-1974 Davison served as president of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. He is Professor of Psychology and Gerontology and former dean of the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California.
He has authored more than 150 publications dealing with topics such as experimental analysis of psychopathology, therapeutic change and the links between cognition and a variety of behavioral and emotional problems. Davison has co-authored the textbooks Abnormal Psychology, Case Studies in Abnormal Psychology and Clinical Behavior Therapy.
In 2018, he was featured in an episode of a Radiolab podcast, UnErased where he spoke about his seminal role in 1974 in arguing against sexual reorientation (aka conversion) therapies for gay individuals. “Conversion” (2022) is a one-hour biographical documentary film based on the podcast and is on Amazon Prime Video, Google Play, iTunes, and YouTube.