1. Walt Whitman Odets was born on February 4,1947 and is an American clinical psychologist and author.
11 Facts About Walt Odets
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Walt Odets has written about the early development, psychological and social experiences of gay men and their communities.
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Walt Odets was born on February 4,1947, in Los Angeles, California, to playwright, screenwriter and director Clifford Walt Odets and actress Bette Grayson.
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Walt Odets considered California a healthier environment in which to raise children.
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Walt Odets attended Beverly Hills High School, during which time he developed a continuing interest in photography.
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Walt Odets was eventually awarded The San Francisco Foundation's James D Phelan Award for Photography in 2007.
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Lee Strasberg acted as interim literary executor of Clifford Odets' Estate until Walt Odets was eligible to assume the executorship at the age of 21.
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Walt Odets trained as a clinical psychologist at San Francisco's Professional School of Psychology from which he received his PhD in 1989.
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Walt Odets stressed that seropositive and seronegative men should be targeted differently in terms of prevention strategies.
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That strategy basically boils down to normative, hand-slapping variations on Just Say No " Walt Odets pinpointed the failure of the prevention groups, arguing that they "had been guilty of ignoring the deepest root of gay men's unsafety: the psychological root, what they feel.
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Walt Odets continued speaking out in support of issues relating to gay and bisexual men throughout the mid-1990s and was featured on numerous radio programs, mostly in the Bay Area.