Reorientation therapy is therapy that people with homosexual or bisexual tendencies come to for gender-role reorientation, or to become heterosexual as some might argue. Until recently, Gagnon (2015), reports that the underlying assumptions that a therapist is trying to convert an individual to heterosexuality is actually false, and adds that a client can explore his heterosexual potential without having to convert. This has been a hot topic across the last several years with major bills being passed on the state and federal government level, claiming that homosexuality is not a psychological disorder, and that being homosexual should be embraced. In these two opposing views, the exploration for the reasoning behind each sides particular views
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Gagnon appears to be a little more on the deistic side, or the belief that God is a clockmaker and set the universe in motion and no longer interact with his creation. This becomes apparent when he talks about the idea of “pray the gay away” as not a solution to the issue. Prayer, in the theistic perspective, is the Christians direct communication to their creator and that God can answer those prayers. Gagnon is less mystical about the ideas of helping homo- and bi-sexuals with more objective social control learning theories and other environmental factors that help in explaining the client’s situation. Like Gagnon, the APA document, classifying a how to on therapeutic interpretation, is hard to see as just having one world view with no other interaction. According to Sire, the idea that any person is free to choice, in regards to his or her nature and destiny, is in line with an existential atheistic perspective. In addition to a naturalistic perspective, Glassgold and company adopt an existential point of view so as to explain the meaning for any therapy at all being meaningful and worth it. If solely a naturalistic perspective, one might believe that those in the APA will begin to lose meaning in life and fall away from any personal conviction since our existence came about by chance, leading to a more …show more content…
Gagnon said, “Reparative Therapy has been mostly attacked from within by psychology, but also by fellow Christians, although from a different angle. In psychology, this attack is coming from the LGBTQ stranglehold which it possesses on that profession” (Gagnon, 2015). It is apparent when he begins to address the issue later in this article/speech that psychology has been largely influenced by the LGBTQ community, and therefore holding values that correspond with that group. Although many people within the LGBTQ have great intentions to rid the stereotypes and malintent toward those struggling with sexual identity, the love for one another is not shown to those that oppose their viewpoints but only the one’s that tolerate or accept it. The inconsistency in these claims have lead others to believe that the motivations for change are not scientific but more an adoptions of values shared by a particular group of
Gagnon appears to be a little more on the deistic side, or the belief that God is a clockmaker and set the universe in motion and no longer interact with his creation. This becomes apparent when he talks about the idea of “pray the gay away” as not a solution to the issue. Prayer, in the theistic perspective, is the Christians direct communication to their creator and that God can answer those prayers. Gagnon is less mystical about the ideas of helping homo- and bi-sexuals with more objective social control learning theories and other environmental factors that help in explaining the client’s situation. Like Gagnon, the APA document, classifying a how to on therapeutic interpretation, is hard to see as just having one world view with no other interaction. According to Sire, the idea that any person is free to choice, in regards to his or her nature and destiny, is in line with an existential atheistic perspective. In addition to a naturalistic perspective, Glassgold and company adopt an existential point of view so as to explain the meaning for any therapy at all being meaningful and worth it. If solely a naturalistic perspective, one might believe that those in the APA will begin to lose meaning in life and fall away from any personal conviction since our existence came about by chance, leading to a more …show more content…
Gagnon said, “Reparative Therapy has been mostly attacked from within by psychology, but also by fellow Christians, although from a different angle. In psychology, this attack is coming from the LGBTQ stranglehold which it possesses on that profession” (Gagnon, 2015). It is apparent when he begins to address the issue later in this article/speech that psychology has been largely influenced by the LGBTQ community, and therefore holding values that correspond with that group. Although many people within the LGBTQ have great intentions to rid the stereotypes and malintent toward those struggling with sexual identity, the love for one another is not shown to those that oppose their viewpoints but only the one’s that tolerate or accept it. The inconsistency in these claims have lead others to believe that the motivations for change are not scientific but more an adoptions of values shared by a particular group of