Sexual conversion therapy : ethical, clinical and research perspectives

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The practitioners of sexual conversion therapy, meant to cure homosexuals of their homosexuality, have overlooked a number of harmful effects and failed to produce a reliable clinical basis for their treatments, argue the editors. They present 11 contributions from the perspectives of patients and clinicians on the problems with sexual conversion therapy. The history and theoretical assumptions of the therapy are examined, testimonies of those who have suffered from conversion therapies are presented, and methods of giving healing therapy to those who suffered the trauma of conversion therapy are explored. Finally, a group of essays explore the ethical implications and concerns raised by sexual conversion therapies.  Read more... What Needs Fixing? An Introduction I?m Your Handyman: A History of Reparative Therapies The View from Irving Bieber?s Couch: ?Heads I Win, Tails You Lose? Excerpts from Cures: A Gay Man?s Odyssey Becoming Gay: A Personal Odyssey Healing Homosexuals: A Psychologist?s Journey Through the Ex-Gay Movement and the Pseudo Science of Reparative Therapy Cures versus Choices: Agendas in Sexual Reorientation Therapy Therapeutic Antidotes: Helping Gay and Bisexual Men Recover from Conversion Therapies Ethical Issues in Sexual Orientation Conversion Therapies: An Empirical Study of Consumers Overview of Ethical and Research Issues in Sexual Orientation Therapy Ethical Concerns Raised When Patients Seek to Change Same-Sex Attractions Index Reference Notes Included