Reparative therapy and confirmation bias: An illustration

One of the biggest problems I have with reparative therapy is the self-fulfilling nature of the approach. Reparative therapists assume that the existence of same-sex attraction means a person has suffered gender based trauma during a specific period of childhood. Reparative therapist David Pickup has commented on another post that straight men may have wounds…

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NARTH issues statement on sexual orientation change

Apparently in response to Alan Chambers’ candor about sexual orientation change, the National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality issued a clarification of what that organization means by change. Issued January 27, the statement reads in full: Current discussions of homosexual sexual orientation change are unavoidably occurring within a sociopolitical climate that makes…

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