Why a Gay Person Can't Be Made Un-Gay: The Truth About Reparative Therapies - Hardcover
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.
· 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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Reparative therapy dates back to the beginning of the last century, or earlier.
Martin Kantor, MD, is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist who has been in full private practice in Boston and New York City and active in residency training programs at hospitals including Massachusetts General in Boston, MA, and Beth Israel in New York, NY.
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- PublisherPraeger
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1440830746
- ISBN 13 9781440830747
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages272
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