Richard Friedman, a psychoanalyst who countered negative ideas about homosexuality in his book Male Homosexuality: A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspective, has died at age 79.Friedman died March 31 at his home in New York City, but The New York Times published an obituary of him just this week.
The immediate cause of death was not clear, his widow told the Times, but Friedman had several health issues, including cardiac and metabolic problems.The American Psychiatric Association had removed