Education
Williams College; University of Virginia.
Williams College; University of Virginia.
Gould was known as outspoken advocate on social issues, including psychiatric treatment of homeless people, violence on television (he was the president of lobbying group National Coalition on Television Violence), homosexuality and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Gould successfully advocated removing homosexuality from the list of pathologies in the American Psychiatric Association treatment manual, but an article he wrote in Cosmopolitan in January 1988 claiming that women faced little risk of Human Immunodeficiency Virus infection through vaginal intercourse, courted controversy. The Chicago Tribune summarized: "There"s almost no danger of getting Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome from ordinary sexual intercourse, and the irrational fear of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome that stifles guilt-free enjoyment of sex may prove more destructive in the long run than the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome virus itself, Doctor Robert East. Gould, a professor of psychiatry and of obstetrics and gynecology at New York Medical College, said in the January Cosmopolitan. His controversial message has drawn the indignant wrath of several leading Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome experts."
Gould was born and died in New York City.
They had two sons, Anthony and Roger.
Prior to working at New York Medical College, Gould had been a professor at New York University"s medical school and also a lecturer at Fordham University. Gould grew up in New York City, largely with his Hungarian-immigrant grandparents.
He attended Williams College before graduating from the University of Maryland. He earned his Doctor of Medicine at University of Virginia Medical School.
Gould was trained as a psychoanalyst at William Alanson White Psychiatric Institute in New York City.
Gould was involved in 1967 in successfully working with the American Civil Liberties Union in overturning the institutionalization of a lady who was homeless by choice since she was not mentally illinois