Nicolosi graduated from the California School of Psychology in 1977. In 1980, he started a psychological clinic that supported Catholic ideals. Nicolosi was influental in starting NARTH as an organisation in 1992. Nicolosi's Views and Therapeutic Ideas Nicolosi's views are generally in line with the ideas of earlier therapists like Charles Socarides. He--and his organisation--consider homosexuality to be a form of psychopathology. He believs homosexuality to be caused unequivocally by poor parenting.