Some wish to cure the gay om themselv and look to gay reparative therapy, but do gay nversn therapy actually work? Fd out.
Contents:
- A HALF-CENTURY OF CONFLICT OVER ATTEMPTS TO 'CURE' GAY PEOPLE
- GAY CONVERSN THERAPY – REAL OR HOAX?
- IS BEG GAY, CURABLE?
A HALF-CENTURY OF CONFLICT OVER ATTEMPTS TO 'CURE' GAY PEOPLE
* gay curable *
Fifty years ago today, TIME ran a short article unr the headle, “Homosexuals Can Be Cured.
GAY CONVERSN THERAPY – REAL OR HOAX?
I heard that this group of Rsians, Created a cure for beg gay. What do you guys thk? * gay curable *
” The article reported that male homosexuals rpond well to group psychotherapy, unr the re of 64-year-old Universy of Pennsylvania profsor and psychiatrist Samuel Hadn. Hadn was not the only—or most proment—psychiatrist to claim homosexualy was a curable mental illns, but he was reprentative.
IS BEG GAY, CURABLE?
Throughout the 1960s, psychiatrists Irvg Bieber and Charl Soris were regularly quoted newspapers and magaz, argug that homosexual sire was a form of psychosocial maladjtment, rultg om childhood.