The ntroversial mpaign of Mike Pence has brought gay nversn therapy back to the headl. Here's a b of s horrible history.
Contents:
- THE MAN WHO ATTEMPTED TO USE PLEASURE CONDNG TO TURN A GAY MAN STRAIGHT
- GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS
- THE MOST SHOCKG FACTS ABOUT GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
- GAY BRAS STCTURED LIKE THOSE OF THE OPPOSE SEX
THE MAN WHO ATTEMPTED TO USE PLEASURE CONDNG TO TURN A GAY MAN STRAIGHT
Robert Heath, Deep Bra Stimulatn, Gay Men, Homosexualy, Mental Illns, Electril Stimulatn, Septal Area, Department of Psychiatry and Nrology, Tulane Universy, Medil School, New Orleans, Louisiana * gay conversion deep brain stimulation *
The Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs, or DSM, which the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn pil as a gui to diagnosis and treatment of illns, listed homosexualy as a "socpathic personaly disturbance” the DSM-I, published 1952, and as a “sexual viatn” the DSM-II, published 1968 (see Further Readg).
Homosexualy has been treated wh lobotomi, chemil stratn, electril shocks and nsea-ducg dgs as well as psychotherapy.
I then tell my stunts about a bizarre gay-nversn experiment rried out 1970 by a leadg bra-implant rearcher, Dr. Heath scribed his homosexualy experiment two papers published 1972: “Septal Stimulatn for the Iniatn of Heterosexual Behavr a Homosexual Male, ” -wrten wh Charl Moan, Journal of Behavr Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry; and "Pleasure and Bra Activy Man, " Journal of Nervo and Mental Disease.
GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS
* gay conversion deep brain stimulation *
The experiment volved “patient B-19, ” a 24-year-old man wh a history of epilepsy, prsn, dg abe and homosexualy. For the prev three years, Heath wrote, B-19 had “led the life of a vagrant, experimentg wh dgs, engagg numero homosexual relatnships and beg supported fancially by his homosexual partners.
The Amerin Psychiatric Associatn, after a protracted bate, stopped cludg homosexualy the DSM 1987.
THE MOST SHOCKG FACTS ABOUT GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
But as The Guardian reported last year, groups around the world still practice gay-nversn therapi, cludg on volvg electric shocks. Rearch on bra implants for treatg mental disorrs ntu, but no one, as far as I know, is g implants to nvert homosexuals. Historil overviews of gay-nversn therapy and the DSM tegorizatn of homosexualy n be found Wikipedia and a 2015 article Behavral Scienc, rpectively.
GAY BRAS STCTURED LIKE THOSE OF THE OPPOSE SEX
The latter quot Edmund Bergler, a proment psychoanalyst, sayg his 1956 book Homosexualy: Disease or Way of Life: “I have no bias agast homosexuals; for me they are sick people requirg medil help...
Still, though I have no bias, I would say: Homosexuals are sentially disagreeable people, regardls of their pleasant or unpleasant outward manner. Completed at Tulane 1972, Heath exposed B-19, a 24-year-old man, to DBS an effort to "cure" his homosexualy, which at the time was classified as a "sexual viatn" the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn's send edn of s Diagnostic and Statistil Manual (DSM).
Before 1968, the DSM-I classified "homosexualy" as a "socpathic personaly disturbance. While the circumstanc around B-19's troductn to Heath and nsent to treatment are disputed, Heath ced the patient as experiencg other psychologil problems, like "prsive reactn, " "personaly disorr wh homosexual behavr and dg experimentatn, " and "temporal lobe dysfunctn.