Comments on: Year in review – Top ten stories from 2006

By: Warren

Warren — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 04:27:58 +0000

Indeed, it is but some of these matters were covered extensively in other venues. Where is your radar aimed? 🙂

By: jag

jag — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:09:46 +0000

As for “stories of the year,” I was surprised to read your listing. As someone involved, these haven’t even crossed my radar or my colleagues. Perhaps it is all in the eyes of the beholder….and after all…it is your blog.

By: Boo

Boo — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:31:46 +0000

I must agree with Bussee and the anonymis’ choices for story of the year. Mainly because… well, you know why.

My humility is my best asset. I’m very proud of my humility. 😉

By: Michael Bussee

Michael Bussee — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 22:51:56 +0000

I applaud both of you for the stand you took relative to the Berger and Schoenewolf debacles. NARTH has a lot of work to do to restore what (very little) cridibility it may have had before these articles, posted on their official website, came to light.

By: David Blakeslee

David Blakeslee — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 05:38:30 +0000

Michael,

I don’t think homosexuality needs to be reclassified as a mental illness for my point to be made. I think over time encouraging clinicians to be nuanced in their approach to same sex attactions and to include religious value systems in that in that process is potentially the biggest story of the year.

I do not require that gay activists abandon their agenda or that gay affirming therapists abandon their work. So, I think, it is potentially very even handed. If the APA does change to acknowledge diversity in this area it will be a 3-7 year process and we will only know I was right after the fact.

Regarding NARTH. It is a big story and a credit to Warren’s integrity that he took it head on and dealt with a lot of fall out because of it that many readers here know nothing about.