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<blockquote data-quote="Scoundrel" data-source="post: 1116782" data-attributes="member: 8823">Although the article quoted by OP doesn't make it especially clear, the Connecticut law only applies to minors.This makes me feel marginally better — marginally, because you know this is only one step in a larger, longer-term effort to ban all therapy of this type for everyone.The video clip debeguiled posted with Stephen Fry got me interested to hear more from Dr. Joseph Nicolosi. Like many people who are vilified by the media, Nicolosi has many very interesting and thought-provoking things to say.I recommend listening to this audio talk as a good introduction to his perspective:[MEDIA=youtube]BAepG8MIhqY&amp;t=19s[/MEDIA]So-called &quot;conversion therapy&quot; — and the view of homosexuality as a psychological aberration — is nothing new. Here is a passage from Dr. Frank Caprio's book Female Homosexuality: A Modern Study Of Lesbianism, published in 1954 (paperback pages 13-14):Caprio closes his book with this statement:Note the use of the term &quot;invert&quot; or &quot;inversion&quot; when describing homosexuality. This was common parlance among professionals of the era: Normal, healthy desire is focused outward, in the direction of the &quot;other&quot; gender, while homosexual desire gets focused inward, in the wrong direction, so to speak. (As Nicolosi mentions, homosexuality nearly always involves some element of narcissism.)Nicolosi calls homosexuality a gender identity disorder — in males, it involves a failure at a young age to disassociate from the mother, and form a positive emotional-psychological association with the father. The cliché of the overbearing mother and the distant/absent father apparently has a good deal of truth to it.Today therapists like Nicolosi are demonized, yet in Caprio's time the idea of homosexuality as &quot;normal&quot; would have been absurd. Sex is rooted in reproductive function. For a man to feel sexual desire for other men, while feeling little or no desire for any women, makes no sense on a biological level — a fact which must have seemed utterly obvious to psychologists of the past.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Scoundrel, post: 1116782, member: 8823"] Although the article quoted by OP doesn't make it especially clear, the Connecticut law only applies to minors. This makes me feel marginally better — marginally, because you know this is only one step in a larger, longer-term effort to ban all therapy of this type for everyone. The video clip debeguiled posted with Stephen Fry got me interested to hear more from Dr. Joseph Nicolosi. Like many people who are vilified by the media, Nicolosi has many very interesting and thought-provoking things to say. I recommend listening to this audio talk as a good introduction to his perspective: [MEDIA=youtube]BAepG8MIhqY&t=19s[/MEDIA] So-called "conversion therapy" — and the view of homosexuality as a psychological aberration — is nothing new. Here is a passage from Dr. Frank Caprio's book [i]Female Homosexuality: A Modern Study Of Lesbianism[/i], published in 1954 (paperback pages 13-14): Caprio closes his book with this statement: Note the use of the term "invert" or "inversion" when describing homosexuality. This was common parlance among professionals of the era: Normal, healthy desire is focused outward, in the direction of the "other" gender, while homosexual desire gets focused inward, in the wrong direction, so to speak. (As Nicolosi mentions, homosexuality nearly always involves some element of narcissism.) Nicolosi calls homosexuality a gender identity disorder — in males, it involves a failure at a young age to disassociate from the mother, and form a positive emotional-psychological association with the father. The cliché of the overbearing mother and the distant/absent father apparently has a good deal of truth to it. Today therapists like Nicolosi are demonized, yet in Caprio's time the idea of homosexuality as "normal" would have been absurd. Sex is rooted in reproductive function. For a man to feel sexual desire for other men, while feeling little or no desire for any women, makes no sense on a biological level — a fact which must have seemed utterly obvious to psychologists of the past. [/QUOTE]

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