ANOTHER STUDY PROVES THE EFFICIENCY AND SAFETY OF REPARATIVE THERAPY
While LGBT-led politicians are passing laws to ban therapeutic help for people who experience unwanted homosexual attraction, another study has come out in the US that convincingly demonstrates that such people can be helped.
The American Psychological Association (APA) and other mental health organizations recommend that psychologists discourage clients from changing their sexual orientation on the pretext that the methods used have "not been proven effective or safe." Citing "biased sampling, inadequate methodology, inaccurate classification of participants, and self-reported estimates", the APA criticizes the existing evidence for successful reorientation as "unreliable" for providing firm empirical conclusions.
However, in the best tradition of double standards, the APA uses research with similar flaws to discredit "conversion therapy" and support "gay affirmative therapy." It is worth noting that there are only 4 empirical or quasi-empirical studies that have examined the impact of a “gay affirmative” approach on client well-being. Despite the fact that the results of these studies have been very mixed, and the methods are largely ineffective, the APA presents the "gay affirmative" approach as the most advanced and the only acceptable one. The generally accepted narrative says that if a person experiences same-sex attraction, then he must accept a homosexual or at least bisexual identity, which should become the core of his entire being and lifestyle. However, a lot of people do not agree with this alignment and do not want to define their personality on the basis of sexual experiences.
And so, in November 2021, Arizona Christian University professor Carolyn Pela and psychotherapist Philip Sutton published the results of five years of work that nullify the manipulative claims of the APA.
The researchers followed 75 clients of Reintegrative Therapy, a psychotherapeutic system based on proven conventional methods used in the treatment of trauma and addictions. Participants were mostly white religious men aged 18–35 who experienced same-sex attraction but would like to get rid of it, either for religious reasons or to enter into a traditional marriage.
The results were impressive: during the course of therapy, participants' homosexual attraction decreased, heterosexual attraction increased, and identity shifted towards heterosexual. The data also showed "a clinically and statistically significant improvement in well-being." Overall, the results of this study confirm that efforts to change sex drive can be effective, beneficial, and harmless.
“Thus,” the authors say, “the claim that there is no scientific evidence about the benefits or harms of efforts to change sexual orientation is no longer true. Moreover, the persistent warnings of the APA and other organizations regarding clients seeking to change their sexual orientation are misleading, unprofessional, and even unethical in terms of meeting clients' legitimate needs for self-determination. Also, the APA's refusal to instruct the drafters of laws against “conversion therapy,” that research does not support its harm, and that all traditional psychotherapy carries a risk of harm, is no longer acceptable. Because of its more rigorous design, the present study suggests that people with unwanted same-sex attractions can reasonably expect benefits rather than harm from participating in therapy.”
It should be noted that the authors strongly oppose calling their system "conversion therapy", as they say it is a vague, derogatory and provocative term associated with ice baths and electric shocks, which are used to intimidate people with unwanted homosexual attraction. The authors call their methodology SAFE-T (sexual attraction fluidity exploration in therapy), which is consonant with the word "safety" and translates as "the study of the variability of sexual desire in therapy."
An impressive body of scientific work has established the "fluidity" (i.e. variability, fluidity or mobility) of the sexual desire in many people, especially in those experiencing homosexual attraction. Although people may have homosexual, bisexual, or heterosexual identities, their experiences often do not fit into these categories, but instead form a continuum where the focus of attraction can move both ways. The SAFE-T technique allows the client to explore the variability of his sexual desire and make a shift in the direction he wants.
As for “harm and inefficiency”, absolutely any psychotherapeutic approach, even the most recognized and effective one, can turn out to be ineffective or harmful to the client. Thus, a relatively constant proportion of adults (up to 10%) and a strikingly high proportion of children (up to 24%) show a deterioration in their condition during therapy, and 45% of clients suffering from depression do not experience significant improvement.
Pela and Sutton's study provides strong evidence that at least some clients who wanted to control their unwanted same-sex attraction and behavior were able to succeed. This calls into question the APA's stance against reparative therapy, as well as legislative efforts to ban therapeutic choices for clients. Individuals interested in reducing unwanted or excessive same-sex attraction have every right to seek and receive professional help to achieve their goals, and qualified mental health professionals have the right to offer such help.
More information about psychotherapy for unwanted same-sex attraction:
https://pro-lgbt.ru/category/articles/therapy
We thank honest researchers. Man was created by GOD, and GOD is LIGHT and there is no darkness in Him. Amen!
You are confused yourself. Nonsense and stupidity should not be published. Homosexuality and all sexual hobbies cannot be treated. Do you even understand what you are writing. It is obvious that those who “research” psychiatry, medicine, theology, cultural studies, history and psychology have not read. You are either stupid or divided the opinions of those who worked in those Nazi “experimental camps” or religious fanaticism became a science for you. These deviations cannot be “treated”.
Nonsense, it's just you who don't understand psychology, even its basic knowledge.
Yes, it definitely needs to be treated. As a rule, everything comes from childhood. Thank you for your hard work! And I also wanted to ask: why do you not write anywhere about financial support for your activities? I think many people would help finance your project
these deviations are the result of certain conditions of upbringing and development, “distorting” the development of the psyche, and therefore correction is possible.
The desire to prove that this is the norm, unfortunately, pursues its own goals.
“These deviations cannot be “treated.”
Well, at least you recognize these as deviations... In the Nazi camps, everything was exactly the opposite. There they shared exactly your point of view, Konstantin, that everything is innate and from genes, and treatment and/or correction of “bad” heredity is impossible, so those undesirable were simply destroyed. But in general, the abundance of grammatical, stylistic and punctuation errors only indicates that you yourself read very little.
That's right, it was already clear from the beginning. The founder of this idea just made good money, and the boy who was brought up as a girl just suffered all his life and committed suicide.
This is the famous story of David Reimer, the boy who was never a girl. Which went into conflict already in adulthood with a scientist who convinced the parents to change the sex of the child.
Does low IQ correlate with homophobia?
Looking in which country. If it is a tolerant country with established homofascism, smarter people will claim that they are not homophobic. But this is not the link between homophobia and IQ. There is a correlation between Western education and liberality, as well as a correlation between ignorance and low intelligence. But not a direct connection between low intelligence and homonegativism.
common sense suggests that homosexuality is the result of propaganda plus life and upbringing without God