Conversion therapy is a topic that has both critics and supporters and has been recently in the news ever since California came out with a law banning conversion therapy for teenagers and children (Buchanan, 2012). Critics say that the therapy is an example of pseudo-science that it forcibly tries to change the gay's person's sexual tendencies and that, since this is unnatural and impossible, only eventuates in guilt and depression. Supporters, on the other hand, maintain that, as like every other therapy, conversion therapy cannot be expected to help all. More so, there are some individuals who do wish to change their sexual tendencies and, therefore, they should be enabled to sign up for conversion therapy would they so wish. Finally, the government has no right to interfere unless conversion therapy has been shown to be destructive to all clients; and this is has not yet evidenced itself to be.
What is conversion therapy?
Conversion therapy, also known as reparative therapy, is a particular method that purports to be able to change the sexual orientation of a person (American Psychological Association, February 2008).
The therapy itself has long roots and can be traced to three different phases: the early Freudian period when psychoanalysts and the lay culture largely approved of conversion therapy since either thought homosexuality to be unnatural (although Freud himself disagreed on this point);, the mid period when disproval towards conversion therapy non-existent, and a post-Stonewall period when the mainstream medical and psychiatric profession completely reversed its tone and condemned conversion therapy (Just the Facts Coalition, 1999). Although Freud did not consider homosexuality to be pathological, psychoanalysis's of the 1920s judged homosexuality to be unnatural and classified it as an illness warranting treatment. This stance was aggravated in the 1930s and 1950s where American psychoanalysts such as Bergler insisted that homosexuality was a perversion and could be cured in at least 90% of the time. Those who failed to be cured lacked the will to do so. Bergler and others received notoriety for applying harsh behavioral methods and bullying homosexuals into conversion...
Tragically, it harms the most vulnerable among us -- children. This must stop Please, send Senate Bill 1172 to the Assembly floor for a vote. It is the right thing to do. Thank you. (Domi,, 2012 ). My Opinion Advocates of conversion therapy are correct in maintaining that as long as the therapy helps a quantifiable amount of people, and these people voluntarily choose that theory, it should be maintained. The question
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