Sexual Conversion Therapy
Subtitle: Ethical, Clinical, and Research Perspectives
Contributors: Ariel, Ph.D. Shidlo (Editor); Michael Schroeder (Editor); Jack Drescher (Editor)
Publisher: Haworth Medical Press
Published: May 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780789019110
Subjects: Gay studies (Gay men); Lesbian Studies; Psychotherapy - General; Mental health; Gays; Sociology; Social Science; Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychology & Psychiatry Profession - Ethics; Mental health services; Gay Studies; Homosexuality
First sentence: The American Psychiatric Association's 1973 decision to remove homosexuality as a mental disorder from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Bayer, 1981) has been followed by an era of significant improvements in the sociopolitical standing of lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals in the United States.
Description: "In their fervor to "fix" homosexuals, practitioners of sexual conversion therapies have often overlooked or completely dismissed the possible psychological and social side effects of such treatments. Sexual Conversion Therapy: Ethical, Clinical and Research Perspectives works to counterbalance the clinical and ethical omissions of overzealous therapists who have appeared, at times, to focus on efficacy and outcome at the expense of their patients' well being. This book features first-person accounts of patients, including psychotherapists, who themselves have undergone treatments that include psychoanalysis, religious faith healing, and aversion therapy using electric shock. It also presents empirical research on conversion therapy from a consumer-centered perspective that sheds light on ethical issues."--Jacket.