Homosexual Cure : Bad and Bogus
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Ex-Gay Efforts Are Beneath Contempt
Amazingly psychologists and psychiatrists who should know better are still offering so-called therapy to render gay men and women straight.
A new study published in the learned journal BMC Psychiatry:
Of 1848 practitioners contacted, 1406 questionnaires were returned and 1328 could be analysed. Although only 55 (4%) of therapists reported that they would attempt to change a client’s sexual orientation if one consulted asking for such therapy, 222 (17%) reported having assisted at least one client/patient to reduce or change his or her homosexual or lesbian feelings. 413 patients were described by these 222 therapists: 213 (52%) were seen in private practice and 117 (28%) were not followed up beyond the period of treatment. Counselling was the commonest (66%) treatment offered and there was no sign of a decline in treatments in recent years. 159 (72%) of the 222 therapists who had provided such treatment considered that a service should be available for people who want to change their sexual orientation. Client/patient distress and client/patient autonomy were seen as reasons for intervention; therapists paid attention to religious, cultural and moral values causing internal conflict.
I.e., treatments to diminish, abolish, in some way thwart their sexuality. What sane purpose can making someone feel “less gay” have? Attempts to render a person into something that they, by their most basic nature, aren’t will - in the long-term - fail.
The researchers conclude that ex-gay therapeutics have no real efficacy.
“There is very little evidence to show that attempting to treat a person’s homosexual feelings is effective, and in fact it can actually be harmful,” says Professor Michael King, Professor of Primary Care Psychiatry at UCL Mental Health Sciences, “so it is surprising that a significant minority of practitioners still offer this help to their clients.”
Therapists Still Offer Treatment For Homosexuality
A therapist or counselor might offer this kind of wrongheaded treatment because the patient wants it. But health providers say no all the time. Psychologists and psychiatrists who provide this to unhappy gay people prove that gaining a degree more a matter of learning how to fulfill standardized requirements, not possessing empathy, emotional intelligence or a real ability to heal on any level.
Others just do it for money. Medical scum that you can’t do much about.