Sexual Reorientation Therapy: Is It Ever Ethical? Can It Ever Change Sexual Orientation?

2013 ◽  
pp. 223-230
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Sexual Reorientation ◽  
Reorientation Therapy

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.

Beliefs and Practices of Therapists who Practice Sexual Reorientation Psychotherapy

2000 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 689-702 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Nicolosi ◽  
A. Dean Byrd ◽  
Richard W. Potts
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Treatment Option ◽  
Psychological Functioning ◽  
American Psychiatric Association ◽  
Developmental Disorder ◽  
Conversion Therapy ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Sexual Reorientation ◽  
Reorientation Therapy ◽  
Do So

There is currently controversy regarding whether sexual reorientation or conversion therapies are ethical and effective forms of treatment for dissatisfied homosexually oriented people. We present the results of a survey of 206 psychotherapists who practice sexual conversion therapy. 187 therapists said they believed homosexuality is a developmental disorder and that the 1973 decision by the American Psychiatric Association to “depathologize” homosexuality was politically motivated and unscientific. The therapists believe that the majority of dissatisfied homosexually oriented clients who seek conversion therapy benefit from it, experiencing both changes in their sexual orientation and improved psychological functioning. We conclude that therapists who persist in providing reorientation therapy do so because they believe it is an effective and ethical treatment option for their clients.

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.

scholarly journals The Sexual Diversity Debate in Brazilian Psychology: Professional Regulation at Stake

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (spe3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cleber Michel Ribeiro de Macedo ◽  
Horacio Federico Sívori
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Sexual Politics ◽  
Free Expression ◽  
Sexual Diversity ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Professional Regulation ◽  
Evangelical Christians ◽  
Contentious Issue ◽  
Sexual Reorientation

Abstract So-called “sexual reorientation therapies” represent a challenge to the scientific and professional development of Psychology, and to the exercise and free expression of sexual orientation as a human right. Since 1999 the Brazilian Federal Council of Psychology (CFP) has implemented a ban against the pathologization of homosexuality. The validity of that normative instrument, known as Resolution 01/99, has been contested by moral entrepreneurs within the profession, self-identified as Evangelical Christians, who pose a broader challenge to Psychology, standing as a secular, science-based profession. The controversy created by the challenge to CFP’s positions on homosexuality and on religion extrapolates the domain of Psychology and its regulation as a science and profession, and becomes one more dispute related to sexual politics in Brazil. In this paper we explore the process by which sexual diversity has become a contentious issue for Brazilian Psychology, affecting the politics and regulation of the profession.

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