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Sexual conversion therapy : ethical, clinical, and research perspectives / Ariel Shidlo, Michael Schroeder, Jack Drescher, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homosexuality.
- Gay people--Mental health.
- Gay people.
- Gay people--Mental health services.
- Psychotherapy.
- Homosexuality--psychology.
- Behavior Therapy--methods.
- Ethics, Clinical.
- Research.
- Gays--Mental health services.
- Medical Subjects:
- Homosexuality--psychology.
- Behavior Therapy--methods.
- Ethics, Clinical.
- Research.
- Physical Description:
- 215 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Haworth Medical Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- Sexual Conversion Therapy features first-person accounts of patients and clinicians--even psychotherapists--who themselves have undergone treatments ranging from psychoanalysis to religious faith healing to aversion behavior conditioning and even electroshock therapy. Nearly 30 years after the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, a small but dedicated group of mental health practitioners continues to diagnose and treat homosexuality as a mental illness. This book works to counterbalance the clinical and ethical omissions of overzealous therapists who have focused on efficacy and outcome at the expense of their patients' self-esteem.
- Contents:
- What Needs Fixing? An Introduction / Ariel Shidlo, PhD, Michael Schroeder, PsyD, Jack Drescher, MD 1
- I'm Your Handyman: A History of Reparative Therapies / Jack Drescher, MD 5
- The View from Irving Bieber's Couch: "Heads I Win, Tails You Lose" / Paul Moor 25
- Excerpts from Cures: A Gay Man's Odyssey / Martin Duberman, PhD 37
- Becoming Gay: A Personal Odyssey / Richard A. Isay, MD 51
- Healing Homosexuals: A Psychologist's Journey Through the Ex-Gay Movement and the Pseudo-Science of Reparative Therapy / Jeffry G. Ford, MA, LP 69
- Cures versus Choices: Agendas in Sexual Reorientation Therapy / A. Lee Beckstead, PhD 87
- Therapeutic Antidotes: Helping Gay and Bisexual Men Recover from Conversion Therapies / Douglas C. Haldeman, PhD 117
- Ethical Issues in Sexual Orientation Conversion Therapies: An Empirical Study of Consumers / Michael Schroeder, PsyD, Ariel Shidlo, PhD 131
- Overview of Ethical and Research Issues in Sexual Orientation Therapy / Marshall Forstein, MD 167
- Ethical Concerns Raised When Patients Seek to Change Same-Sex Attractions / Jack Drescher, MD 181.
- Notes:
- "Co-published simultaneously as Journal of gay & lesbian psychotherapy, v. 5, nos. 3/4, 2001."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0789019108
- 0789019116
- OCLC:
- 48768113
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