Can I change my sexual orientation?

Most of the material below is published in an analytical report. “The rhetoric of the homosexual movement in the light of scientific facts”. doi:10.12731/978-5-907208-04-9, ISBN 978-5-907208-04-9

Key findings

(1) There is a substantial base of empirical and clinical evidence that unwanted homosexual attraction can be effectively eliminated.
(2) An important condition for the effectiveness of reparative therapy is the patient's informed participation and desire to change.
(3) In many cases, homosexual attraction, which can occur during puberty, disappears without a trace at a more mature age.

Homosexuality is treatable. The effects of psychotherapy for homosexuality were associated with significant reductions in same-sex attraction (from 5,7 to 4,1 on the Kinsey scale), identification (from 4,8 to 3,6), and sexual activity. Over 42,7% of SOCE participants achieved at least partial remission of unwanted same-sex sexuality; complete remission was achieved by 14% for sexual attraction and identification, and by 26% for sexual behavior [*]. This is enough to have heterosexual attraction and form normal relationships.

In July 2020, John Blosnich of the LGBTQ+ Health Equity Center published another study on the “dangers” of conversion therapy. After surveying 1518 “non-transgender sexual minorities,” Blosnich’s team found that individuals who had undergone sexual orientation change (SOCE) reported higher rates of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts than those who had not.

But when another team of scientists, led by Christopher Rosick, analyzed data from “the most representative sample of sexual minorities to date,” the results were polar opposites. Comparing the scores of people who had undergone unsuccessful SOCE treatment with those who had not, there was no difference in the levels of psychological or social harm—the two groups were indistinguishable on every measure. In fact, SOCE was found to significantly reduce suicidality: adults who underwent SOCE after suicidal thoughts or plans were 17 to 25 times less likely to attempt suicide [**].

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* Sullins DP, Rosik CH, Santero P. Efficacy and risk of sexual orientation change efforts: a retrospective analysis of 125 exposed men //F1000Research. – 2021. – T. 10.

** Sullins DP Absence of Behavioral Harm Following Non-effective Sexual Orientation Change Efforts: A Retrospective Study of United States Sexual Minority Adults, 2016–2018 // Frontiers in Psychology. – 2022. – T. 13.

Introduction

Specialized care for people who want to get rid of unwanted homosexual attraction (NGV) is called rehabilitation therapy, SOCE.1 or reparative therapy. Also, such help is called reorientation, conversion, hetero-affirmative or reintegrative therapy.

Since clinical facts about successful elimination of homosexual attraction and transition to normal heterosexual life seriously undermine the myth of the “innate” and “unchangeable” homosexuality, on which all the political rhetoric of gay activists is built, they have made considerable efforts to discredit reparative therapy, presenting it as useless and even harmful, and practitioners as charlatans and religious fanatics. One of the constant mantras of the “LGBT*+” movement is the assertion that the help of specialists is allegedly unable to eliminate NGV. This assertion is not true.

Elimination of NVG by working with specialists

In the 1973 year, excluding the egosyntonic (i.e. acceptable for the patient) homosexuality from the list of mental disorders, the American Psychiatric Association published document, Whereby: 

"... Modern methods of treatment allow a significant part of homosexuals who want to change their orientation to do so ..." (Spitzer, 1973).

This statement was approved by the Assembly of the Association, its Reference Committee and the Board of Trustees - a council composed of young liberal homophiles who unanimously voted for the depatologization of homosexuality. APA was guided by Leona Tyler principleaccording to which the statements of psychologists should be based only on scientific data and actual professional experience. As the former president of the American Psychological Association, Nicholas Cummings, testifies, closer to the 90 years, the association abandoned this principle to please the political agenda.

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However, in 2009, the American Psychological Association publishes guidelines for modern psychiatric diagnosis and treatment, in which сообщается following:

“Recent empirical evidence suggests that homosexual orientation can indeed be therapeutically altered in motivated clients, and that attempts at reorientation therapy do not produce emotional harm.” 
(Essential Psychopathology and Its Treatment (2009), 3d ed. p. 468, 

However, a few months later, with glaring inconsistency, the APA publishes a statement that reparative therapy is ineffective (APA 2009). It is this statement that activists of the “LGBT*+” movement refer to in discussions about the possibility of therapeutic influence on homosexual attraction. A group of APA members, who are also part of the professional organization “Alliance for Therapeutic Choice”2, in response to the APA statement in the same year published a review of the APA statement, which listed such shortcomings in the APA report as selective selection of sources (Phelan 2009a, p. 45), arbitrary application of criteria for reparative therapy (Phelan 2009a, p. 48), the application of double standards (Phelan 2009a, p. 49), and others.

So, what is actually indicated in the APA statement, if you carefully analyze it? The general conclusion was the condemnation of reparative therapy as ineffective and harmful. However, if you look at the last pages of the conclusion, you can see the facts that the authors of the report were forced to note in order to avoid forgery, but they do not include these facts in their comments and press statements:

“... We found that non-versatile and modern methods of reparative therapy have not been thoroughly investigated. Given the limited amount of methodologically reliable research, we cannot conclude whether modern forms of reparative therapy are effective or not ... ”(APA 2009, p. 43).

What are APA experts talking about in essence? The fact that they did not find clear evidence that reparative therapy is ineffective. They simply do not have accurate data in order to draw such a conclusion, although they did everything possible to reduce, as much as possible within the limits of scientific analysis, the methodological significance of studies that do not correspond to the negative interpretation of reparative therapy3. Ultimately, the only evidence left from the same APA document is that reparative therapy — naturally under certain conditions, the main one being the patient’s desire to change — is effective. LGBT*+ activists try to link same-sex attraction to biology and genetics, arguing that it cannot change, but such a position contradicts the results of various studies listed in the APA statement.

Consider quotes from an APA document:

“… HE Adams and Sturgis (1977) analyzed seven studies that they classified as methodologically controlled and found that 34% of 179 individuals had a decrease in homosexual attraction…. Among the studies they classified as methodologically uncontrollable, they found that 50% of 124 individuals had a decrease in homosexual attraction (p. 36)

- McConaghy (1976) found that approximately half of men undergoing one of four treatment regimens reported a decrease in sexual interest in men after 6 months. Most participants noted a decrease in sexual interest in men immediately after treatment (p. 3)

- McConaghy and Barr (1973) found that about half of the men who received therapy reported a decrease in homosexual drive (p. 38).

- Tanner (1975) found that as a result of therapy, the level of reflex homosexual erection decreased in response to visual stimuli (p. 38).

- Birk and colleagues (1971) found that 62% of men treated showed a decrease in homosexual drive (p. 38).

- McConaghy and colleagues (1981) reported that 50% of respondents who received therapy reported decreased sexual desire after 1 a year (p. 38).

- In another study, HE Adams and Sturgis (1977) reported that 68% of 47 participants reported a decrease in homosexual drive (p. 37).

- McConaghy (1976) found that a year after therapy, 25% of men completely stopped homosexual acts, in 50% of men their frequency decreased, and 25% remained unchanged (p. 38).

- In another study, McConaghy and Barr (1973) reported that 25% of men who received therapy decreased their homosexual activity after 1 a year (p. 38).

- Tanner (1975) reported a significant decrease in homosexual drive as a result of treatment (p. 38).

- Bancroft (1969) noted that 4 of the 10 treated men reduced homosexual activity during follow-up. Freeman and Meyer (1975) reported that 7 of the 9 men in their study abstained from homosexual activity 18 months after treatment (p. 38).

- According to other publications with clinical cases and case studies, there was a decrease or disappearance of homosexual activity in those undergoing therapy (Gray 1970; Huff 1970; B. James 1962, 1963; Kendrick & McCullough 1972; Larson 1970; LoPiccolo 1971; Segal & Sims 1972 ) (p. 39) ... "(APA 2009).

So, even APA does not state in its conclusion that treatment is ineffective. Efficiency in 30 – 50% is significant enough for any research method, if only to exclude the characteristic of such a method as “useless”.

In addition, NARTH published its own report that year, What Research Shows: NARTH's Response to the American Psychological Association's (APA) Claims on Homosexuality.Phelan 2009b) In this report, a review of publications was conducted in the form of a description of clinical cases from practice, controlled trials and observations over the past hundred years.

Over 100 English-language publications describing the successful results of reorientation therapy are shown in the table below.

Source

Type of therapy

Experience the Power of Effective Results

Carl Jung
quoted in
 Fordham 1935

psychodynamic therapy

described the successful treatment of a homosexual man

Gordon 1930

psychodynamic therapy

described successful treatment for a homosexual patient

Stekel 1930

psychodynamic therapy

described the successful treatment of four homosexual patients

Regardie xnumx

hypnosis techniques

noted the effectiveness of practices based on practice

London 1950

psychodynamic therapy

described the successful treatment of two gay men

Allen 1952

psychodynamic therapy

described the successful treatment of two homosexuals, 
men and women

Poe 1952

adaptation therapy

described the successful treatment of a homosexual man

Caprio xnumx

psychodynamic therapy

described the successful treatment of homosexual women: "many of my former lesbian patients told me long after treatment ... that they would never return to a homosexual lifestyle»(P. 299)

Eliasberg 1954

group therapy

described the treatment of 12 homosexual men, success was achieved in 5 cases (42%)

Bergler 1956

psychodynamic therapy

described successful treatment of 100 homosexual patients, which amounted to 33% of all cases of therapy

Eidelberg in Lorand xnumx

psychodynamic therapy

successful treatment of 2 patients from 5 (40%)

Ellis 1956

psychodynamic therapy

successful treatment of 40 patients (18 (I.e., 12 )

Berg 1958

psychodynamic therapy

successful treatment of Xnumx patients

Hadn xnumx

group therapy

described the treatment of 3 homosexual men, success was achieved in the 1 case (33%)

Hadfield xnumx

psychodynamic therapy

successful treatment of Xnumx patients

Ross 1958

combination of
technician

noted the effectiveness of practices based on practice

Robertiello 1959

psychodynamic therapy

successful treatment of a homosexual patient

Ellis 1959

behavioral therapy

described the successful treatment of a homosexual man

Monroe 1960

psychodynamic therapy with free association technique

successful treatment of xnumx homosexual men

Finny xnumx

combination of
technician

noted the effectiveness of practices based on practice

Glover 1960

psychodynamic therapy
in 7 cases hormone therapy

described the treatment of 113 patients, success achieved in 44%

Beukenkamp xnumx

individual and group psychodynamic therapy

described the successful treatment of a homosexual man

Stevenson xnumx

assertive training

described the successful treatment of xnumx gay men

Bieber xnumx

psychodynamic therapy

described the treatment of 106 patients, success achieved in 27%

Coates 1962

psychodynamic therapy

described the treatment of 45 patients; improvement (cessation of homosexual behavior) was achieved in 7 cases (16%)

Ovesey 1963

psychodynamic therapy

described successful treatment of xnumx homosexual men

Buki xnumx

combination
from technician

noted the effectiveness of practices based on practice

Cappon 1965

psychodynamic therapy

described the treatment of 150 patients, success was achieved in 30% of men, 50% of women, and among bisexual patients - 90%

Mayerson in Marmor xnumx

psychodynamic therapy

described the treatment of 19 patients, success was achieved in 47% of cases

Mintz xnumx

psychodynamic therapy

described the treatment of 10 homosexual men, success was noted in 3 (30%)

Mather xnumx

behavioral therapy and
aversive techniques

described the treatment of 36 patients, success was achieved in 25 cases (69%)

Hadn xnumx

group therapy

described the treatment of 32 patients, success achieved in 38%

Kaye xnumx, p. 633

psychodynamic therapy

described the treatment of 15 homosexual women, success was achieved in 8 (55%)

Alexander 1967

hypnosis techniques

noted the effectiveness of practices based on practice

Roper xnumx

hypnosis techniques

noted the effectiveness of practices based on practice

MacCulloch 1967

aversive therapy

success in treating xnumx homosexual men

Kraft xnumx

psychodynamic therapy and
systemic desensitization

described success with a homosexual man

Serban 1968

behavioral therapy

described success in Xnumx homosexual patients

Miller 1968

combination of
technician

noted the effectiveness of practices based on practice

Ramsay xnumx

desensitization techniques

described success with a homosexual man

Freud 1968, p. 251

psychodynamic therapy

success in treating 2 patients from 4 (50%)

Jacobi 1969

psychodynamic therapy

described the treatment of 60 patients, success was noted in 6 (10%)

Fookes 1969

aversive therapy

described success in treating 60% homosexual patients

McConaghy 1969

aversive therapy

described success with a homosexual man

Lamberd 1969

psychodynamic therapy

described success in Xnumx homosexual patients

Bergin 1969

desensitization techniques

described success with a homosexual man

Ovesey 1969

psychodynamic therapy

described success with Xnumx gay men

Wallace xnumx

psychodynamic therapy

described success with a homosexual man

Larson 1970

behavioral therapy

described the effectiveness of the method according to their practice, but did not give exact numbers

Birk xnumx, p. 37

group therapy

described the treatment of 26 patients, success was achieved in 9 cases (35%)

Huff xnumx

desensitization techniques

described success with a homosexual man

Bancroft in Burns 1970

desensitization methods

described the treatment of 15 patients, success was achieved in 5 cases (33%)

Kraft xnumx

psychodynamic therapy and
systemic desensitization

described success with a homosexual man

McConaghy 1970

aversive therapy

described success with a homosexual man

Mandel xnumx

desensitization techniques

described the effectiveness of a practice based method

Hatterer xnumx

behavioral therapy

described the treatment of 149 patients, success was achieved in 49 cases (34%)

Cautela 1971

behavioral therapy

described success in 37% of cases

Bieber in Kaplan 1971

group therapy

described success in 40% of cases 

Truax 1971

group therapy

noted the effectiveness of the method in comparison with the control group

Hadn xnumx

group therapy

described success in 30% of cases

Birk xnumx

behavioral therapy

described success in xnumx%

Pittman xnumx

group therapy

described the treatment of 6 patients, success was achieved in 2 cases (33%)

Feldman xnumx, p. 156

behavioral therapy

described the treatment of 63 homosexual men, success was achieved in 29% of cases

Van den Aardweg 1971

behavioral therapy

described the treatment of 20 patients, success was achieved in 9 cases (42%)

Shealy xnumx

behavioral therapy

described success with a homosexual man

Kendrick xnumx

desensitization techniques

described the effectiveness of a practice based method

Segal 1972

desensitization techniques

described the effectiveness of a practice based method

McConaghy 1972

aversive therapy

described success with a homosexual man

Barlow xnumx

behavior therapy, implosive therapy

described success in xnumx%

McConaghy 1973

reflex equipment

described success in xnumx%

Maletzky 1973

behavioral therapy

described the treatment of 10 homosexual men, success was achieved in 90% of cases

Herman 1974

reflex techniques

described the treatment of 3 homosexual men, success was achieved in 33% of cases

Birk xnumx, p. 41

group therapy

described the treatment of 66 patients, success was achieved in 52% of cases

Bancroft xnumx

behavioral therapy

described success in xnumx%

Cantón-Dutari 1974

desensitization techniques, aversive therapy

described the treatment of 54 patients, success was achieved in 48 cases (89%)

Orwin 1974

aversive therapy

described success with a homosexual man

Tanner xnumx

aversive therapy

described the effectiveness of the method in 8 gay men

Freeman 1975

behavioral therapy

described success in xnumx%

McConaghy 1975

aversive therapy

described success with a homosexual man

Cantón-Dutari 1976

desensitization techniques, aversive therapy

described the complete successful treatment in 11 of 22 cases of homosexual men (50%)

Callahan in Krumboltz 1976

desensitization techniques

described success with a homosexual man

Phillips 1976

systemic desensitization techniques

described success with a homosexual man

Socarides 1978, p. 406

psychodynamic therapy

described the treatment of 44 patients, success was achieved in 20 (45%)

James xnumx

systemic desensitization techniques

described success with a homosexual man

Bieber xnumx, p. Xnumx

psychodynamic therapy

described treatment for more than 1000 homosexual patients; successful treatment ranged from 30% to 50%

Birk in Marmor xnumx

group therapy

described the treatment of 14 homosexual men, success was achieved in 10 cases (71%) 

Pradhan xnumx

behavioral therapy

described the treatment of 13 homosexual men, efficacy observed in 8 (61%)

Cafiso 1983

hypnosis techniques

described success with a homosexual man

Van den Aardweg 1986a1986b

cognitive therapy

described the treatment of 101 patient, success was noted in 30%, improvement - in 60%

Siegel 1988

psychodynamic therapy

described the treatment of 12 homosexual women, success is noted in 50%

Berger 1994, p. 255

psychodynamic therapy

described success in Xnumx homosexual patients

Consiglio 1993

pastoral care

described a complete transition to heterosexual activity in 85%

MacIntosh 1994

psychodynamic therapy

analysis of 1215 treatment cases for homosexual patients, success was observed in 23%, and in 84% significant significant treatment effects were noted

Schaeffer xnumx

pastoral care

described that in the group of 140 participants, in 29% a complete transition to heterosexual activity was noted

Nicolosi 2000

psychodynamic therapy, pastoral care, training

described that in the group of 882 patients (689 men and 193 women) in 34,3% of cases a complete transition to exclusively or almost exclusively heterosexual activity was noted. Before therapy, 67% indicated exclusively homosexual attraction; after therapy, 12,8%.

Shidlo 2002

psychodynamic therapy

the authors initially set the goal of the study to detect the harm of reparative therapy. For example, ads to find members were placed in homosexual magazines under the heading “Help UsDocument the Harm! " The authors described a group of 202 patients (182 men and 20 women), of which 12,9% considered the transition to heterosexual activity successful.

Sharpener 2003

psychodynamic therapy, pastoral care

investigated a group of 200 patients (143 men and 57 women) who underwent reparative therapy and considered its results to be successful. All respondents noted the presence of heterosexual attraction, in 17% of men and 54% of women this attraction was exceptional. Before 46 therapy,% of men and 42% of women indicated exclusively homosexual attraction, after therapy - 0%.

Cards 2006, not published in peer-reviewed source

psychodynamic therapy

investigated a group of 117 men undergoing reparative therapy. A significant decrease in homosexual attraction from 4,81 to 2,57 on the Kinsey scale was noted

Cummings 2007, not published in peer-reviewed source

psychodynamic therapy

speaking at the conference NARTH reported in 2005 that in 1959 – 1979 18000 homosexuals turned to his clinic with various problems, of which approximately 1 600 aimed to change their sexual orientation. During therapy, many patients underwent positive changes in the psyche, as a result of which 2400 of them became heterosexual.

Jones xnumx

pastoral care

described that in the group of 73 participants in 15% a significant decrease in homosexual drive and a significant increase in heterosexual drive were noted

Phelan 2017

psychodynamic therapy

described a group of 30 men, in which a year after completion of therapy, it was noted: sexual attraction exclusively to the opposite sex - 23% (0% before treatment), mainly to the opposite sex - 17% (0% before treatment), in which then the degree to the opposite sex is 10% (0% before treatment).

Summing up the evidence available to date, we can say that on average one third of people participating in psychodynamic reparative therapy report a complete disappearance of homosexual attraction and the formation of an attraction to the opposite sex, a third - a significant shift towards heterosexual attraction and an overall improvement in psychological well-being and social functioning, and a third report a lack of results. The most important factor in successful reparative therapy is the patient’s desire, awareness of the reasons for his attraction to his own sex and the underlying emotional needs.

Western medical institutions that oppose the therapy of unwanted same-sex attraction under the pretext that it is “potentially harmful” are, in fact, deceiving the public by not explaining that: 

(1) All psychiatric services for all personal and interpersonal problems can be harmful; 
(2) Responsible science has not yet shown whether the risk of harm in the treatment of an undesirable same-sex drive is greater, the same, or less than the risk of any other psychotherapy. (Sutton xnumx

Research showthat approximately 5 – 10% of patients undergoing psychotherapeutic treatment may experience a “negative effect” - that is, a worsening of their condition. Counter-therapeutic factors include the low quality of interpersonal relationships, low tolerance to anxiety, low motivation, etc.

Spontaneous elimination of homosexual attraction

Back in the 1916 year, Freud in his essay “Leonardo da Vinci: A Psychosexual Study of an Infantile Reminiscence” noted:

“... By directly observing individual cases, we were able to demonstrate that a man who seems able to respond only to male stimuli actually responds to female stimuli, like any normal individual, but each time he ascribes his excitement to the male object ...” (Freud 1916, III: 14).

This observation is supported by modern research (Storms 1980, Tolman & Diamond 2014)

In the 1992 year, Shechter described a case of a spontaneous transition from homosexual activity to heterosexual in a man who underwent a course of psychoanalytic therapy with her, but not with regard to NGV, but for another reason (Shechter 1992) The man stopped relations with his homosexual partner, stopped homosexual activity, he developed sexual fantasies with women. After he began a sexual relationship with a woman, he described his condition with the words:

“… I can't tear myself away from her and she loves it! ... Can someone, like me, suddenly become heterosexual? ... "(Shechter 1992, p. 200).

Researchers Michael and colleagues in the 1994 year, based on the results of an analysis of a large study, found that in some individuals, homosexual attraction can, of course, without resorting to reparative therapy, turn into heterosexual (Michael 1994).

A researcher of age psychology, a member of the APA expert committee, Professor Lisa Diamond, who does not hide her homosexual preferences, summarized the results of her many years of work in an interview with New Scientist:

"Sexuality is changeable ... we must accept the fact that sexuality can change" (Grossman xnumx)

In an article in The Journal of Sex Research, Diamond summed up scientific research, according to which 26 – 45% of men and 46 – 64% of women report a change in sex drive over the period of time (from 3 to 10 years), most of which reporting a change, reported a change towards heterosexuality. (Diamond 2016).

It should be noted that, contrary to the claims of LGBT* propagandists, the nature of sexual desire can change in both heterosexual and homosexual directions. There are cases of heterosexual individuals becoming homosexual as a result of extreme depravity and satiety with normal sexual relations (Krafft-Ebing 1909), with prolonged inaccessibility of a partner of the opposite sex, as well as a result of seduction (Meijer 1993) Objective biological facts undoubtedly indicate that the bodies of all living beings with sex are intended for heterosexual relationships. Nevertheless, some higher mammals, which include humans, have the potential to perform sexual acts in certain situations that go beyond the framework of natural heteronormativity, not only with their gender, but also with any sexual objects in general. Studies indicate that the nature and intensity of an individual’s erotic fantasies largely determine his sexual orientation (Money & Tucker 1975, Storms 1980)

However, studies have shown that heterosexual attraction is more stable at least 25 times than homosexual. Researchers Savin-Williams and Ream conducted cohort-long-term cohort observations of adolescents from the age of 17 years and evaluated how the characteristics of sexual development change. They found that in 75% of adolescents who showed homosexual interest of any degree in the age period of 17-21 years, subsequently exclusively heterosexual attraction developed, while 98% of adolescents showing heterosexual attraction remained in the future (Savin-Williams 2007).

Whitehead and Whitehead's (2007) completed a detailed review of the studies of Savin-Williams and Ream (2007), Michael and colleagues (1994), and others, and concluded that in some cases homosexual interest becomes heterosexual without any impact (Whitehead 2007)

In a study by Ott and colleagues (2011) as a result of an analysis of a group of 13 840 teenagers, it was found that 66% of those who claim to be “not sure” of their sexual preferences later become exclusively heterosexual (Ott xnumx).

Also, an analysis of cases of a spontaneous transition from homosexual to heterosexual activity, available in the journalistic literature, was carried out in 2007 in Sorba (Sorba xnumx, pages 61 – 73).

Treating specialists and stories of successful cure for NGV

1956 is an outstanding psychiatrist of his time Edmund Bergler wrote the following:

“10 years ago, the best that science could offer was the reconciliation of the homosexual with his“ destiny ”, in other words, the elimination of conscious feelings of guilt. Recent psychiatric experience and research have unequivocally proved that the supposedly irreversible fate of homosexuals (sometimes even attributed to non-existent biological and hormonal conditions) is in fact a therapeutically modifiable subdivision of neurosis. The therapeutic pessimism of the past is gradually disappearing: today psychoanalytic psychotherapy can cure homosexuality ”... Can we cure every homosexual? - No. Certain prerequisites are necessary, and most importantly, the desire of a homosexual to change ...

At first glance, this sexual disorder is invariably combined with serious subconscious self-destruction, which inevitably manifests itself outside the sexual sphere, since it covers the entire personality. The real enemy of a homosexual is not his perversion, but his ignorance that he can be helped, plus his mental masochism, which makes him avoid treatment. This ignorance is artificially supported by homosexual leaders ... ”(Bergler 1956).

Edmund Bergler. Source: edmundbergler.ca

Psychiatry professor Nikolai Vladimirovich Ivanov (1907 – 1976), one of the founders of Russian sexopathology, identified three important factors for successful treatment of homosexual attraction: (1) the patient’s attitude - does he or she resist the attraction, is he burdened by his attraction, is he aware of its inadequacy, Does it foresee social consequences in the event of a concession to attraction? (2) the patient’s presence of homosexual experience - this circumstance was considered by N. V. Ivanov as decisive. If the patient is a young man or girl, and homosexual attraction is still a dream and a tender friendship - urgent systematic psychotherapy is required, which will be quite promising, leading to a complete restructuring of attraction on a heterosexual orientation; (3) a group of other internal and external factors influencing the patient - the patient's awareness of the moment of inversion (for example, a very strong sexual impression without any prerequisites for homosexuality before the onset of puberty, in other words fixation on sex); expressed mental crisis of a person living in a homosexual partnership or having homosexual experience, the presence of simultaneous heterosexual attraction, etc. (Ivanov 1966, p. 134).

Professor Ivanov considered “constitutional” or behavioral inversion to be factors preventing reparative therapy (but here, according to the psychiatrist, there is no need to refuse treatment); hope for a “pill” (for a miracle); skepticism of the patient (that is, in fact, active unwillingness to change).

Professor N.V. Ivanov

In all these cases, Ivanov would suggest that the patient better “openly refuse treatment, citing the fact that he does not have an internal need to become different, suggest that the patient return to the doctor when life itself sharply and menacingly raises the painful question of the impossibility of further existence with perversion, when with the whole being he wants to get rid of his ailment ”(Ivanov 1966, p. 134).

Ivanov’s student, Dr. Yan Genrikhovich Goland, applied the teacher’s ideas to the development of an effective consistent method of treatment of homosexual attraction, which he has been successfully using to this day. Therapy consists of three steps:
1) the creation of a sexual-psychological vacuum in which an indifferent attitude towards people of their gender is developed;
2) the formation of aesthetic perception of a woman and attraction to her.
3) intimate relationships with a woman, consolidation of heterosexual orientation.
Goland accepts for treatment only those homosexuals who demonstrate a sincere desire to get rid of their homosexual interest, and сообщает about therapeutic success approaching 100%.

The American researcher Jeffrey Satinover agrees with these data, according to which, in a carefully selected group of highly motivated individuals, the level of successful reparative therapy is close to 100%, while in an arbitrary sample, the successful result is about 50% (Satinover xnumx, p. 51).

American psychiatrist Joseph Nicolosi (1947 – 2017) developed an effective method of reparative therapy, based on the concept that homosexual attraction is the result of the so-called “lack of gender identity” caused by exclusion from one’s gender, lack of support from parents and peers in the formation of gender identity, as well as active promotion of sexual experimentation by society (Nicolosi 1991, 1993, 2009) Nicolosi also published a number of scientific papers in peer-reviewed publications.4.

Dr. Joseph Nicolosi.
Source:
josephnicolosi.com

Spanish psychologist Elena Lorenzo Rego5 successfully helping young homosexuals seeking help. In her practice, there is already a significant number of cases of termination of a homosexual lifestyle and a transition to relationships with the opposite sex (Portaluz 2014).

Dr. Elena Lorenzo Rego.
Source: elenalorenzo.com

One of the prominent Russian-speaking specialists in the treatment of NGV in Eastern Europe is the Kiev psychiatrist and sexologist Professor Garnik Surenovich Kocharyan.

Professor Garnik Surenovich Kocharyan

Over the years, the revelations of many people who have successfully abandoned their homosexual lifestyle and have formed a heterosexual attraction have been published. For example, W. Aaron wrote in his autobiographical essay:

"... For 20 years I was homosexual (...) today, many years later (...) I lead the life of a heterosexual and enjoy it ..." (Aaron 1972, p. 14).

Some other examples are presented in the works. Rekers (1995), Worthen (1984), Konrad (1987), Comiskey (1988), Judkins (1993). Breedlove (1994), Strong (1994), Davies (1993), Goldberg (2008), Pabon (2015), Baley (xnumx), Glatze (2007). About 100 autobiographical examples of successful rejection of homosexuality are given in the book Voices of Hope: Latter-day Saint Perspectives on Same-Gender Attraction — An Anthology of Gospel Teachings and Personal Essays (2011) (Mansfield xnumx).

A lot of evidence and revelations have been collected on the sites of communities that unite people who successfully get rid of homosexual attraction and a homosexual lifestyle, for example, “Changed","Voices of Change","Voices of Hope" and "Voice of the voiceless».

Myths about Aversive Therapy

Since ͟е͟а͟л͟ь͟н͟ы͟е͟ ͟ф͟о͟т͟о͟г͟р͟а͟ф͟и͟и aversion therapy is not so dramatic, LGBT* propagandists often pass off scenes from the films "A Clockwork Orange", "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" or pictures of electroconvulsive therapy as it

In the “LGBT*+” rhetoric aimed at discrediting reparative therapy, a strong place is occupied by the myth that, supposedly, earlier, before the 1970s, homosexuals were treated exclusively by passing electric current through the brain. One can often hear stories aimed at evoking compassion and sympathy from ignorant ordinary people about how people with homosexual attraction were previously forcibly thrown almost into the electric chair.

It's a lie. It is designed to intimidate and demotivate those homosexuals who are trying to find an opportunity to get rid of NGV. The above report (Phelan 2009b) convincingly shows that men and women interested in eliminating NVH successfully achieved their goal without any “passing electric current through the brain”. In the 1970's, this was a well-known scientific fact, which the central press freely wrote about.

For example, an article in the newspaper The New York Times from the 1971 year entitled “More homosexuals aided to become heterosexual” talks about a variety of methods of therapy - psychodynamics, group therapy, a combined method, etc.:

“… Using a range of psychological approaches, therapists have found that young homosexuals who are determined to change their sexual orientation have an excellent chance of success. In addition, therapists report that they have helped 25-50% of their homosexual patients complete heterosexual correction, regardless of their age or initial motivation (…) Treatment approaches range from traditional psychoanalytic therapy to targeted psychotherapy, group therapy, behavioral therapy, and any combination of these (…) [Dr. Lawrence] Hatterer tries to help his patients understand the origins of their homosexual behavior by examining family relationships and childhood experiences. At the same time, he tries to change homosexual behavior by working with his patients to identify and avoid aspects of life that provoke homosexual episodes, and replace them with heterosexual stimuli and relationships. He may, for example, suggest that the patient refrain from visiting gay bars and go to regular bars instead, or replace homosexual pornography and images of men with images of women.

The doctor said that one 30-year-old patient made a complete heterosexual correction in three months of treatment. A man without the slightest heterosexual experience began therapy being on the verge of suicide, having parted with the man with whom he lived for two years. “After only nine 45-minute sessions and 27 listening to the recordings, the man was engaged and maintained a successful sexual relationship with his bride several times a week,” says Dr. Hatterer.

The most important aspect of treatment is to inform the patient that there is an opportunity to somehow help his problem.

At the Institute of Behavioral Therapy at Temple University, Dr. Joseph Walp and his colleagues attempt to treat homosexuals exclusively by modifying their reactions using behavioral methods.

Their "three-way attack" affects homosexuals' fear of physical contact with women, their attraction to men and their general interpersonal fears. For example, to eliminate fears about women, the patient goes into a state of deep relaxation and then introduces women. To erase their sexual interest in men, patients are also subjected to such “aversive” stresses as light electric shocks while displaying images of naked men ... "(Broody xnumx).

So, here it is - a mention of electric current! What really happened?

In medicine, there really exists such a treatment method as passing an electric current through the patient’s brain for 0.1 to 1 seconds - it is called electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). This method was proposed in 1938 for the treatment of severe schizophrenic disorders (Wilson 2017) ECT is still used today to treat various psychiatric disorders in which other types of therapy do not have the desired effect. As noted in a review in the peer-reviewed journal Clinical Psychopharmacology and Neuroscience:

“... Electroconvulsive therapy is a time-tested method of treating various psychiatric diseases. Over the decades, the ECT method has received a number of improvements. Despite a lot of criticism, ECT is still routinely used in clinical practice ... ”(Singh and Kumar Kann 2017).

Conducting ECT at Hillside Hospital, circa
1955 of the year. Source: GettyImages

Currently, about 1 million patients a year resort to electroconvulsive therapy to treat various psychiatric and neurological diseases, usually severe depression, catatonia and manic syndrome. As the BBC Psychology writes:

"... Electroconvulsive therapy helps patients in 80% of cases - but the stigma associated with this method suggests that ECT does not help all people that it could help ..." (Riley 2018)

ECT in Britain, 2013 year. Source: BBC / Newsnight

Of course, there is heated debate about the effectiveness, safety and ethics of ECT. But they are irrelevant to the topic - ECT has never been officially used in homosexuality therapy.

The terrifying images of faces convulsed in excruciating pain, electric shocks, and references to Jack Nicholson's character from the 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest that are all over the LGBT*+ movement's resources on the topic of treatment have nothing to do with the issue.

Visual agitation with homosexual resources.

The light electric shocks described in the above article in The New York Times relate to the aversive therapy method. Averse therapy is not electroconvulsive therapy. With aversive therapy, electric current is not passed through the patient’s brain.

Aversive therapy, based on Pavlov’s classic conditioning, is engaged in the formation of aversion to unwanted stimuli at the level of the conditioned reflex. This method was used to voluntarily get rid of addictions, phobias, aggression, sexual disorders and even spasms (McGuire and Vallance 1964) This is achieved by associating an unwanted irritant (cigarettes, sexual fantasies, pornography, etc.) with unpleasant sensations (pain, nausea, fear, etc.). Electric current is produced by an apparatus running on an 9-volt battery, where the patient himself sets a discharge level that is tolerable for him, which is delivered through the cuff electrode to the biceps or lower leg area (in no case to the genital area).

Averse therapy for a homosexual patient.
The electrode on the lower leg. Source: Bernie Cleff

It was this method of aversive therapy that was used with the consent of patients to get rid of HBV. By the 70 years, behavioral therapy had gained wide popularity, and aversive stun guns were sold even for home use.

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Prospectus for a device about self-directed home aversive therapy, Farral Instruments
(click for full size)

With rare exceptions, aversive therapy with electric current is not used today in the treatment of NGV due to a number of disadvantages associated with the instability of the effect. Aversive therapy refers to behavioral therapy, which, as its name implies, deals only with behavior - i.e. external symptoms of the problem. In solving problems based on underlying psychological factors (as in homosexuality), its effectiveness is unlikely to be long-term, since the work is not aimed at eradicating the underlying cause, but at suppressing its visible manifestations. Conditioned reflexes arise under certain conditions and disappear in their absence. Thus, to maintain a constant conditioned reflex aversion to a particular stimulus, regular reinforcement of the former is necessary. In the absence of systematic reinforcement, the extinction of the conditioned reflex will be predictable. Thus, the 1968 study of the year showed that as a result of the aversive treatment of sexual deviations, an improvement occurred in 23 of 40 cases (57%), but when checking a year later it turned out that full success was preserved only in 6 cases (15%) (Bancroft and Marks 1968) The improvement rates for transvestites, fetishists, and sadomasochists were high, the results were less impressive for homosexuals, and very low for transgender people. For comparison, patients who completed the course of pshododynamic therapy remained exclusively heterosexual and twenty years later (Bieber and Bieber 1979, p. 416).

Aversive therapy is part of the Federal treatment standards and is used to treat a number of problems. Experts agree that the use of aversive therapy is possible and sometimes even necessary, but in order to achieve the best and most stable results, it is desirable that it be carried out together with other psychotherapeutic methods.

It should be noted that LGBT*+ activists, demanding a ban on any methods of therapy for unwanted homosexual attraction, cite the “horrors and torture” allegedly endured by individuals who allegedly underwent such therapy. For example, during a hearing on the ban on reparative therapy in a US court in 2013, the testimony of Brielle Goldani (a man who underwent a medical-legal procedure to change into a woman) was heard. According to this testimony, at the age of 13 (1997), his parents forcibly sent him to a “Christian correctional camp for homosexuals” called “True Directions” in Ohio, where children were forced to attend “hate-filled” church services, masturbate to heterosexual images, were injected with intravenous emetics, and had electric electrodes applied to their hands for two hours. It sounds really horrible and shocking: “a Christian correctional camp for homosexuals.”

However, as a result of a thorough check, no evidence in support of the alleged Goldani was found, none of the other children allegedly receiving treatment in the camp showed up, the prosecutor's check did not confirm the existence of such a camp. The only place where a "gay reclamation camp" called "True Directions" existed was ... a 1999 Hollywood film, directed by a lesbian director, starring the famous transvestite RuPaul (Doyle 2013; Sprigg 2014) Naturally, no charges were brought against Goldany's perjury.

Another very similar example involves a homosexual named Samuel Brinton, who accused his own parents of "beating him for being gay" as a child and sending him to a similar "correctional" camp where he was "stuck with thin needles under his fingernails, subjected to electric shocks, and had ice and hot water bottles applied to his genitals while watching homosexual images." Giving (paid) interview after interview, Brinton became increasingly incensed and the details of his inhuman torture became increasingly horrific. However, verification of his words, even by other "LGBT*+" activists, revealed nothing that could confirm what he said - on the contrary, many contradictory and outright false facts were found (Sprigg 2014).

This impudent lie is intended to intimidate and demotivate those homosexuals who are beginning to look for ways to get rid of their same-sex attraction, which prevents them from leading a full life (and there are many). This lie can be deadly: almost all former homosexuals report that they had suicidal thoughts not from hostility of the environment, but from their own self-loathing and feelings hopelessnessbecause they were convinced that they have no way to change.

The fact that motivated people are able to break away from homosexuality forever and become heterosexual undermines the very core of gay rhetoric, which claims that homosexuality is an innate and unchangeable property, like race, and therefore LGBT* activists do not shy away from even the most absurd fables.

"Edmund Berger" is an allusion to Edmund Bergler whose name the authors did not dare to use in order to avoid lawsuits for libel.

Notes

1 English: “sexual orientation change efforts” - “efforts to change sexual orientation”

2 Formerly National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH)

3 for example, apply the most stringent criteria for effectiveness, ignore individual clinical cases of effective therapy, but take into account similar cases of a negative outcome, etc.

4 https://www.josephnicolosi.com/published-papers/

Xnumx Elena Lorenzo Rego


Additional Information

Additional information and details can be found in the following sources:

  1. https://www.voicesofthesilenced.com/#WitnessesPhelan JE, et al. What Research Shows: NARTH's Response to the APA Claims on Homosexuality A Report of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality. Journal of Human Sexuality. 2009b; Volume 1.
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  3. The site of heteroaffirmative therapists: https://iftcc.org/
  4. The site of people with same-sex attraction, who managed to achieve changes: https://changedmovement.com/
  5. Evidence of Changes: https://www.voicesofthesilenced.com/#Witnesses

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Read more:

• A detailed description of the method of psychotherapy J. G. Goland on his website: goland.su

• Edmund Bergler: The Treatment of Homosexuality

• “More homosexuals were able to become heterosexual” - article from The New York Times

• Joseph Nicolosi: The Traumatic Nature of Male Homosexuality

• Reintegration therapy - The latest technique for getting rid of unwanted homosexual attraction.

 How is homosexual attraction formed? (Video)

• Former homosexual tells how to change (Video)

• Gerard Aardweg: a guide to self-therapy of homosexuality

• Homosexuals in the US begin to abandon the argument “so born”

• History of the exclusion of homosexuality from the list of psychiatric disorders

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  2. Homophobia may indicate that the person suffering from it has his own homosexual desires, but on the one hand they are not recognized by him, and on the other hand they seem so terrible and unacceptable to him that they cause great fear. Homophobia is primarily the fear of one's own homosexual desires. PSYCHIATRIST.

    1. throw away your diploma, mister psychiatrist, for you are not qualified.
      A 2012 Hodson study showed that latent homosexuality is experienced by those who view gay people positively.
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    1. Author, I have not found links specifically to scientific research. Scientific research is carried out by a team of scientists, a large number of patients take part, most often at the same time, dividing into several groups, for comparison, statistics are being kept, and much more.

  4. Hmmm ... Sorry ... I just didn't read and didn't want to accept it. It completely changed my vision of the world.

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