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American Psychiatric Association to host symposium on religion, therapy and homosexuality

The American Psychiatric Association will host a symposium called “Homosexuality and Therapy: The Religious Dimension” at their annual meeting in Washington DC on May 5, 2008. I will be on the panel along with David Scasta, MD, Rev. Albert Mohler, Bishop Gene Robinson and moderator, John Peteet, MD. Dr. Scasta is past-president of the Association of Gay … Continue reading “American Psychiatric Association to host symposium on religion, therapy and homosexuality”

Sexual identity therapy and neutrality, Part two

In this second post about therapeutic neutrality, I want to discuss what it does and doesn’t mean in sexual identity therapy. Again, I want to react to some of the thoughts from Dr. Nicolosi in his article, Why I Am Not a Neutral Therapist. Dr. Nicolosi writes: What will happen when the uncommitted (“neutral”) therapist … Continue reading “Sexual identity therapy and neutrality, Part two”

Sexual identity therapy and neutrality, Part one

Continuing the discussion about sexual identity therapy, I want to contrast our framework with both gay affirming and reparative therapies on the dimension of value neutrality in two posts. As a springboard for my thoughts, I want to quote from an article by Joseph Nicolosi on the NARTH website called, “Why I Am Not A … Continue reading “Sexual identity therapy and neutrality, Part one”

Sexual identity therapy: What it is and what it isn’t

There is lots of discussion occuring on various blogs/media sources about the sexual identity therapy framework. I want to link to a couple and comment. Two threads at ExGayWatch involve the framework. One is an open forum triggered by my appearance on CNN with Dr. Benjamin McCommon and the other references Peterson Toscano’s statements about … Continue reading “Sexual identity therapy: What it is and what it isn’t”

The Edge continues “My ex-gay life” series: Dissecting reparative therapy

The Edge’s David Foucher continues his series regarding all things ex-gay with an article today regarding reparative therapy. There are extensive and interesting quotes from Joseph Nicolosi, Clinton Anderson, Jack Drescher, Robert Jay-Green, yours truly and others. There are a number of quotes that caught my eye. This one from Robert Jay-Green left me scratching … Continue reading “The Edge continues “My ex-gay life” series: Dissecting reparative therapy”