Therapeutic Antidotes: Helping Gay and Bisexual Men Recover from Conversion Therapies

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When Sexual and Religious Orientation Collide: (2004, background): “The second case will briefly examine some of the therapeutic issues most profitably addressed for practitioners seeking to heal wounded ex-gay individuals (for a more thorough discussion of such a treatment protocol, see Haldeman, 2001).”
Competing selves: Negotiating the intersection of spiritual and sexual identities. (2010, background): “Research suggests that conversion therapy is largely unsuccessful and has been shown to be detrimental to the mental health of clients (Shildo & Schroeder, 2002) due to increased feelings of guilt, depression, difficulties in forming relationships with other men, and a generalized sense of de-mascul”
Gay Rights, Patient Rights: The Implications of Sexual Orientation Conversion Therapy (2002, background): “Those who report having been harmed in conversion therapies frequently report that their prior therapist(s) attempted to frighten them into changing their sexual orientation by presenting images of gay men and lesbians as depraved, chronically miserable people (Haldeman, 2002).”
Changing sexual orientation: A consumers' report (2002, background): “No large-scale study has been made with the specific goal of looking at the harmfulness of conversion therapies (Haldeman, 2002).”