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Why a Gay Person Can't Be Made Un-Gay - The Truth About Reparative Therapies (Hardcover)
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Why a Gay Person Can't Be Made Un-Gay - The Truth About Reparative Therapies (Hardcover)
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Despite an abysmal "success rate," practitioners still use
reparative therapy in an attempt to turn gays and lesbians
straight. This text exposes the pitfalls that should be considered
before gays embark on this journey that typically leads nowhere.
Although homosexuality is becoming less stigmatized in American
culture, gays and lesbians still face strong social, familial,
financial, or career pressures to "convert" to being heterosexuals.
In this groundbreaking book, longtime psychiatrist Martin Kantor,
MD-himself homosexual and once immersed in therapy to become
"straight"-explains why so-called "reparative therapy" is not only
ineffective, but should not be practiced due its faulty theoretical
bases and the deeper, lasting damage it can cause. This standout
work delves into the history of reparative therapy, describes the
findings of major research studies, and discusses outcome studies
and ethical and moral considerations. Author Kantor identifies the
serious harm that can result from reparative therapy, exposes the
religious underpinnings of the process, and addresses the cognitive
errors reparative therapy practitioners make while also recognizing
some positive features of this mode of treatment. One section of
the book is dedicated to discussing the therapeutic process itself,
with a focus on therapeutic errors that are part of its fabric.
Finally, the author identifies affirmative eclectic therapy-not
reparative therapy-as an appropriate avenue for gays who feel they
need help, with goals of resolving troubling aspects of their lives
that may or may not be related to being homosexual, and of
self-acceptance rather than self-mutation. Presents thorough
descriptions of the various reparative therapies, contrasts these
techniques with traditional therapy, and exposes the faulty
theoretical bases of this form of treatment Details the author
psychiatrist's unsuccessful 5-year-long therapeutic attempt to
change his own homosexuality Provides essential information that
gays and their parents need to know before embarking on what the
author feels is a futile course of changing sexual orientation. The
content will enlighten politicians and reparative therapists
themselves as well Supplies an essential, informed counterpoint to
the existing literature on reparative therapy
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