Comments on: Comments on the sexual identity therapy guidelines welcomed https://wthrockmorton.com/2006/06/14/comments-on-the-sexual-identity-therapy-guidelines-welcomed/ A [retired] college psychology professor's observations about public policy, mental health, sexual identity, and religious issues Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:05:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Throckmorton https://wthrockmorton.com/2006/06/14/comments-on-the-sexual-identity-therapy-guidelines-welcomed/#comment-1501 Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:05:00 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com//2006/06/14/comments-on-the-sexual-identity-therapy-guidelines-welcomed/#comment-1501 Maybe that is what “most people” believe but to say it has scientific support is not settled. Actually, it seems to me that the interactionist position is where consensus is at the moment.

]]> By: grantdale https://wthrockmorton.com/2006/06/14/comments-on-the-sexual-identity-therapy-guidelines-welcomed/#comment-1500 Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:43:00 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com//2006/06/14/comments-on-the-sexual-identity-therapy-guidelines-welcomed/#comment-1500 /sigh

The fact that most therapists are both GAT-based and lean to a biological basis simply reflects what most people have come to understand. Even if you won’t 🙂

]]> By: Throckmorton https://wthrockmorton.com/2006/06/14/comments-on-the-sexual-identity-therapy-guidelines-welcomed/#comment-1499 Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:02:00 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com//2006/06/14/comments-on-the-sexual-identity-therapy-guidelines-welcomed/#comment-1499 I think I have an article somewhere describing the acceptance of biological etiology being a part of GAT. I will look for it. Informally, many therapists do this if you can believe the report of their former clients.

More…

]]> By: Anonymous https://wthrockmorton.com/2006/06/14/comments-on-the-sexual-identity-therapy-guidelines-welcomed/#comment-1498 Thu, 15 Jun 2006 04:43:00 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com//2006/06/14/comments-on-the-sexual-identity-therapy-guidelines-welcomed/#comment-1498 Dr Throckmorton,

What has been the status quo (how would you describe it, being that you used the words “badly in need”, and how do you think things will look or change when the SIT are out in the public domain among clinicians?

Thanks

Jean.

]]> By: j in dc https://wthrockmorton.com/2006/06/14/comments-on-the-sexual-identity-therapy-guidelines-welcomed/#comment-1497 Thu, 15 Jun 2006 01:59:00 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com//2006/06/14/comments-on-the-sexual-identity-therapy-guidelines-welcomed/#comment-1497 As a gay man and a Christian, Anon’s prediction is way off the mark, that “a good deal of the tension between Evangelicals and the gay community would be cleared up if everyone were made to understand that ex-gay does not mean a person is no longer gay.”

If anything, admitting that “ex gay” is really a new name for the closet will only maintain the mixture of distrust and pity that happy healthy gay Christians have for such efforts.

Here’s why: the numbers of gay Christians is growing along with the number of affirming congregations. The number of gay families is increasing as well.

Those people, those families, will only stand in starker contrast to suggestions that we train people to avoid certain relations or relationships, and send them off to marry heterosexual women, even build families, carrying such a risk of disaster and dissolution down the line.

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