Name Malgorzata Lamacz | ||
Education Johns Hopkins University | ||
Małgorzata Anna Łamacz (born 1949) is an American researcher specializing in sexuality and behavioural genetics. As Margaret Lamacz, she is the co-author of the 1989 book Vandalized Lovemaps with John Money. She also participated in extensive research of schizophrenia.
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Life
Malgorzata Has Lived In Baltimore, MD, Princeton, NJ, Baltimore, MD, and Pikesville, MD. She is currently in her 60s.
Education
She holds a Master's degree and a P.H.D. from Johns Hopkins University (School of Medicine), a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. She is in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
Career
While earning her Master’s degree and Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University, Lamacz worked with Money doing clinical psychology and pediatric sexology. There, she worked with transsexual clients, as well as children and adolescents referred for developmental or behavioral issues related to sex and sexuality. Her work with Money on paraphilia led to the concept of "vandalized lovemaps." Their book profiles seven young people based on Money's neurodevelopmental theory of paraphilia development, based on observations in non-human animals. Money and Lamacz the make observations about each outcome once the seven are adults. Because they advocated intervention in the lives of sexually different children, some colleagues criticized their approach. She and Money proposed the term gynemimetophilia as part of a paraphilic model of attraction to transwomen.
Lamacz has since gone on to work on evidence of genetic susceptibility to schizophrenia. Also tied to this is a study of velo-cardio-facial syndrome (or VCS) conducted by Lamacz and a host of other researchers. Along with a link to schizophrenia with this aberration of a small piece of chromosome 22, Lamacz and others found links to various nervous compulsions such as obsessive-compulsive disorder.