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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 cont...

The American Psychiatric Association's 1973 decision to remmove homosexuality as a mental disorder from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has been folIowed by an era of significant improvements in the sociopolitical standing of l...

What motivates individuals to pursue conversion therapy and ex-gay groups? How do they perceive its harmfulness and helpfulness? In this study, 202 consumers of sexual orientation conversion interventions were interviewed to answer these questions. The...

This study uses interviews with 150 consumers of sexual orientation conversion therapies to identify critical incidents of poor practice and ethical violations. We found that some licensed conversion therapists may be practicing in a manner inconsistent...

This paper examines a recent claim by Robert Spitzer, MD, that a small number of gay men and women he interviewed have changed their sexual orientation from homosexual to heterosexual through prayer and Christian counseling. It traces the repressive ant...