Leslie Schover, PhD, Oral History Interview, September 18, 2018
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Description
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal background and education; gender politics and harassment in psychotherapy
- Research: sex/gender in the therapeutic relationship; patient views of fertility/sexuality; interventions for onco-fertility and sexuality
- Views on the evolving fields of sex therapy, onco-sexuality, and onco-fertility
- Onco-sexuality and onco-fertility at MD Anderson: acceptance by patients and clinicians; strategies to build acceptance
- Institutional challenges: setting up new programs, internal politics
Identifier
SchoverL_01_20180918
Publication Date
9-18-2018
Publisher
The Historical Resources Center, Research Medical Library, The University of Texas Cancer Center
City
Houston, Texas
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Topics Covered
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas System. M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute at Houston, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute
Disciplines
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Oncology | Oral History
Recommended Citation
Schover, Leslie PhD and Rosolowksi, Tacey A. PhD, "Leslie Schover, PhD, Oral History Interview, September 18, 2018" (2018). Interview Sessions. 263.
https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewsessions/263
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About the Interview
About the Interview Subject
Clinical psychologist Leslie Schover, PhD (b. 1952, Chicago, Illinois) came to MD Anderson in 1982 as an Assistant professor of psychology in the Department of Urology. She spent time away from the institution, serving as a staff psychologist at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (1986-1999), then returned to MD Anderson in 1999 in the Department of Behavioral Science. She had a joint appt in Gynecologic Oncology and Reproductive Medicine, Division of Surgery. Her research and work on interventions for cancer patients helped to launch the field of oncofertility. Leslie Schover, PhD: Navigation Materials, p. 2 Dr. Schover retired as a full professor from MD Anderson in 2016 to focus on her startup company, Will2Love.