Sexual Reorientation Therapy: Response to Carlton

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 155-160
Author(s):  
Christopher H. Rosik
Keyword(s):  
Therapy Response ◽  
Sexual Reorientation ◽  
Reorientation Therapy

Telling a poormanhe can become rich: Reparative therapy in contemporary Poland

Sexualities ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 44-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Mikulak
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Desire ◽  
The Self ◽  
Reparative Therapy ◽  
Sexual Reorientation ◽  
Reorientation Therapy ◽  
Individual Effort

This article investigates the practice of sexual reorientation therapy, or reparative therapy (RT), in contemporary Poland. Focusing on three groups – Odwaga (Courage), Pomoc 2002 (Help 2002) and Pascha (Passover) – and informed by interviews with their past participants, it examines the ways in which RT in Poland is gendered, as well as investigating the individualizing and self-responsibilizing understandings of the self it rests on. This article then demonstrates how the neoliberal ideas of selfhood permeate the practice of RT, mobilizing the tropes of individual effort and responsibility for the reorientation of one’s sexual desire, obscuring the inherent inequality on which the practice is based.

Clients' Perceptions of How Reorientation Therapy and Self-Help Can Promote Changes in Sexual Orientation

2008 ◽  
Vol 102 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Dean Byrd ◽  
Joseph Nicolosi ◽  
Richard W. Potts
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Pastoral Counselor ◽  
Sexual Reorientation ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Reorientation Therapy

Presented is a summary of 882 homosexual people's responses to 5 open-ended questions about sexual reorientation therapy. Of the 882 participants, 726 reported that they had received reorientation therapy from a professional therapist or a pastoral counselor. As a group, 779 (89.7%) of the participants viewed themselves as “more homosexual than heterosexual,” “almost exclusively homosexual,” or “exclusively homosexual” in their orientation before receiving reorientation therapy or making self-help efforts to change. The majority reported they believed sexual reorientation therapy and various forms of self-help were helpful to them, psychologically, spiritually, and sexually.

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