Posted on April 28th, 2009 by David Roberts
by Jack Drescher, MD
A recent article in Scientific American by Thomas Maier has cast into doubt the veracity of a study published 30 years ago that purported to demonstrate that some people can change their homosexual orientation to a heterosexual one.
The study in question was carried out by the most pre-eminent American sex researchers of [...]
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Filed under: Authors, Fact Finder, Key Studies
Posted on April 26th, 2009 by Dave Rattigan
Reparative therapist Dr Joseph Nicolosi used a conference in London yesterday to recycle a host of offensive myths about gay men.
According to David Virtue, who describes his notoriously anti-gay website as “the global voice for orthodox Anglicanism,” Nicolosi “ripped” gay organizations for promoting a “lifestyle” that is “ultimately pathological, narcissistic, self-absorbed and offers no hope [...]
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Filed under: Change, Exgay Activists, Key Studies, NARTH, Religion, Science, Therapy, Tolerance
Posted on March 26th, 2009 by Dave Rattigan
A survey has found that 17 percent of therapists in the UK have offered a client therapy to “reduce” same-sex attractions. Four percent said they would try to “change” a patient’s sexuality if asked.
The findings are from a study carried out by a team at University College London, whose ongoing research into conversion therapy is [...]
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Filed under: Change, Health, Key Studies, Media, Mental, Science, Therapy
Posted on July 23rd, 2008 by Dave Rattigan
A scientist has accused Parents and Friends of ExGays and Gays (PFOX) of distorting his research by claiming that high school gay-straight alliances increase risk of suicide for teens.
PFOX President Regina Griggs said that “the risk of suicide decreases by 20% each year that a person delays homosexual or bisexual self-labeling,” and criticized schools for [...]
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Filed under: Education/Youth, Exgay Activists, Focus on the Family/FRC, Gay / Exgay / 'Identity', Key Studies, PFOX, Science
Posted on January 7th, 2008 by Patrick Chapman
Dr. Chapman gives his concluding remarks in a series which began with his three part critique of Ex-gays?: A Longitudinal Study of Religiously Mediated Change in Sexual Orientation by Dr Stanton Jones and Dr Mark Yarhouse. What follows is a response to the author’s comments on the original critique. We thank all three [...]
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Filed under: Authors, Books, Change, Exodus, Key Studies, Religion, Science, Therapy
Posted on December 17th, 2007 by David Roberts
Response to Part 3 of Dr. Patrick M. Chapman’s Review of “Ex-Gays”, posted on Ex-Gay Watch, November, 2007, by Stanton L. Jones and Mark A. Yarhouse.
Response to “Part 3: A Focus on the Results — Examining if it is Harmful”
In this final response, Chapman raises a number of interesting questions, but again continues 1) [...]
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Filed under: Authors, Books, Change, Exodus, Key Studies, Religion, Science, Therapy
Posted on December 6th, 2007 by David Roberts
Response to Part 2 of Dr. Patrick M. Chapman’s Review of “Ex-Gays”, posted on Ex-Gay Watch, November, 2007, by Stanton L. Jones and Mark A. Yarhouse.
Response to “Part 2: A Focus on the Results — Examining if Change is Possible”
Here in Part 2 Dr. Chapman’s criticisms turn more severe. First he asserts that [...]
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Posted on November 30th, 2007 by David Roberts
Response to Part 1 of Dr. Patrick M. Chapman’s Review of “Ex-Gays”, posted on Ex-Gay Watch, November, 2007, by Stanton L. Jones and Mark A. Yarhouse.
The greatest compliment that be paid to any work of scholarship is for it to receive serious consideration and generate discussion. Thus, we are pleased to see the review [...]
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Filed under: Authors, Books, Change, Exodus, Key Studies, Religion, Science, Therapy
Posted on November 26th, 2007 by Patrick Chapman
A guest post By Patrick M. Chapman, PhD
Continued from Part 2
A Focus on the Results — Examining if it is Harmful
The American Psychological Association and American Psychiatric Association regard attempts to change sexual orientation as “potentially” harmful or risky. However, Jones and Yarhouse misrepresent the American Psychological Association as saying that such involvement “would be” [...]
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Posted on November 19th, 2007 by Patrick Chapman
A guest post By Patrick M. Chapman, PhD
Continued from Part 1
A Focus on the Results — Examining if Change is Possible
In the opening chapter Jones and Yarhouse honestly and correctly state this study cannot establish if long-term, permanent and enduring change occurs because that would require a long-term study (p. 17). Contrarily, they later suggest [...]
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