You May Not Even be Helping the Homosexuals Conversion therapy is a therapy method that pressures homosexuals to extreme levels of stress and depression, which ultimately leads to suicide and/or mental disorder. Despite large, credible organizations and doctors, like the American Psychiatric Association, The National Association of Social Workers, the Human Rights Campaign, and many more condemn the use of conversion therapy. Those who exercise conversion therapy have no data to support their claim that it helps change sexual orientation. Many organizations castigate the act of conversion therapy because of its lack of scientific proof. Those who support the implementation of conversion therapy claim that the purpose is to help free homosexuals
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Over the years, conversion therapy has tested on thousands of people, having no data they are able to represent to the scientific community. The American Psychiatric Association (APA), a well known organization of Psychiatric specialists and doctors, declares that “There is sparse scientific data about selection criteria, risks versus benefits of the treatment, and long-term outcomes of "reparative’ therapies. The literature consists of anecdotal reports of individuals who have claimed to change, people who claim that attempts to change were harmful to them, and others who claimed to have changed and then later recanted those claims” ( MLA APA STATEMENT). The lack of evidence that conversion therapists are able to provide about how the therapy has helped their patients proves that it may not be a safe way to help someone become a heterosexual. The APA warns individuals who are thinking of conversion therapy that there are low effective rates and that it includes high mental and physical harm. Those interested in conversion therapy are also warned that individuals who run conversion therapy institutions do not have medical sense and that they have the intentions of frauding patients. While conversion therapy has no evidence of helping individuals resist their homosexual behaviors, but do sport the evidence of religious beliefs and how homosexuality is a …show more content…
Conversion therapy tries to turnhomosexuals to heterosexuals by pressuring the idea of being “normal” and that homosexuality is not a human activity. Conversion therapy primarily works on demonizing homosexuality. Gabriel Arana, a well known journalist that wrote for the Huffington Post, The American Prospect, and currently working as a Senior editor for Mic., recalled his experience with conversion therapy with a well known activist for conversion therapy, Joseph Nicolosi. Arana claim that, “ … while in therapy, I did not feel coerced into believing his theories. Like nuclear fallout, the damage came later, when I realized my sexual orientation would not change. I could have told Nicolosi about my thoughts of suicide, my time in the mental institution. I could have told him that my parents still don’t understand me but that I’m grown up now and it has less of a bearing on my life. I could have told him that I married a man. But I realize it wouldn’t be of any use: I’ve changed since I left therapy, but Nicolosi has not. For years I shared my innermost thoughts and feelings with him. Now I want to keep this for myself” ( My So-called ex gay life). Conversion therapy uses methods that the APA, NASW, AACAP, and The Human Rights Campaign oppose due to the great negative effect on patient's mind. Patients are
Over the years, conversion therapy has tested on thousands of people, having no data they are able to represent to the scientific community. The American Psychiatric Association (APA), a well known organization of Psychiatric specialists and doctors, declares that “There is sparse scientific data about selection criteria, risks versus benefits of the treatment, and long-term outcomes of "reparative’ therapies. The literature consists of anecdotal reports of individuals who have claimed to change, people who claim that attempts to change were harmful to them, and others who claimed to have changed and then later recanted those claims” ( MLA APA STATEMENT). The lack of evidence that conversion therapists are able to provide about how the therapy has helped their patients proves that it may not be a safe way to help someone become a heterosexual. The APA warns individuals who are thinking of conversion therapy that there are low effective rates and that it includes high mental and physical harm. Those interested in conversion therapy are also warned that individuals who run conversion therapy institutions do not have medical sense and that they have the intentions of frauding patients. While conversion therapy has no evidence of helping individuals resist their homosexual behaviors, but do sport the evidence of religious beliefs and how homosexuality is a …show more content…
Conversion therapy tries to turnhomosexuals to heterosexuals by pressuring the idea of being “normal” and that homosexuality is not a human activity. Conversion therapy primarily works on demonizing homosexuality. Gabriel Arana, a well known journalist that wrote for the Huffington Post, The American Prospect, and currently working as a Senior editor for Mic., recalled his experience with conversion therapy with a well known activist for conversion therapy, Joseph Nicolosi. Arana claim that, “ … while in therapy, I did not feel coerced into believing his theories. Like nuclear fallout, the damage came later, when I realized my sexual orientation would not change. I could have told Nicolosi about my thoughts of suicide, my time in the mental institution. I could have told him that my parents still don’t understand me but that I’m grown up now and it has less of a bearing on my life. I could have told him that I married a man. But I realize it wouldn’t be of any use: I’ve changed since I left therapy, but Nicolosi has not. For years I shared my innermost thoughts and feelings with him. Now I want to keep this for myself” ( My So-called ex gay life). Conversion therapy uses methods that the APA, NASW, AACAP, and The Human Rights Campaign oppose due to the great negative effect on patient's mind. Patients are