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Late Friday afternoon might not be the best time to post this but… I want to announce the new Sexual Identity Therapy Framework website and invite people to join the SIT Framework list serv. Here is the listserv portal: Click to join sexualidentitytherapy The discussions will be geared primarily to…
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Well, maybe not your brain but this article is an intriguing review of some research relating to brain scans of sexual arousal. I have not examined the original sources yet (plan to) but wanted to put this up for some TGIF reading. Perhaps the author was unaware of the Safron…
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The York Daily Record ran a story in the September 6 print edition and then online on the 8th which examined the American Psychological Association report as well as the Jones and Yarhouse study. The article by Melissa Nann Burke included interviews from local Exodus ministries as well. Some good…
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Discover magazine has an online article out today which covers the APA report, NARTH and the Jones and Yarhouse study. Here are some excerpts: Joseph Nicolosi, a psychologist in Encino, Calif., says he can rid adults, teens, and even children of homosexuality. For nearly 30 years, he has offered a…
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Just a postscript to my earlier posts on brain plasticity and sexual orientation… Neil Whitehead first authored his signature work, My Genes Made Me Do It in 1999. Now he maintains the book on his website saying that “It is under constant review to keep it up-to-date so readers can…
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This post is a follow up to the one about Neil and Briar Whitehead’s article titled, “Brain Plasticity Backs Up Orientation Change” published on the Anglican Mainstream. In their article, the Whiteheads liken sexual reorientation to learning to play a musical instrument and proclaim that science leads us to this…
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This article about brain plasticity by Neil and Briar Whitehead posted on Anglican Mainstream caught my attention for several reasons. Some relate to classes I teach but for this post, I am interested in discussion surrounding the main reason the Whiteheads wrote about neuroscience: sexual reorientation. I have a few…
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Monday, I posted a statement from J. Michael Bailey, prolific sexual orientation researcher at Northwestern University, regarding what he called a “blatant misquotation” and misrepresentation of his views by Dean Byrd, Shirley Cox and Jeffrey Robinson in a 2005 book review of In Quiet Desperation. Yesterday, I posted a link…
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I posted yesterday that Dean Byrd, Shirley Cox, and Jeffrey Robinson misrepresented the views of Northwestern University researcher Michael Bailey. The misrepresentation happened in a review of the book, In Quiet Desperation. The book was written by Fred and Marilyn Matis and Ty Mansfield and in the first part explores…
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Chris Vogel, the reporter who broke the Michael Scinto story, files a post about the new transparency from the MKP. Like me, he has been unable to get confirmation from MKP. I do trust my source however. Vogel interviewed Kathy Scinto, Michael’s mother, who is very happy with the prospects…
