• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Clients' Perceptions of How Reorientation Therapy and Self-Help Can Promote Changes in Sexual Orientation
  • Contributor: Dean Byrd, A.; Nicolosi, Joseph; Potts, Richard W.
  • Published: SAGE Publications, 2008
  • Published in: Psychological Reports, 102 (2008) 1, Seite 3-28
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.2466/pr0.102.1.3-28
  • ISSN: 0033-2941; 1558-691X
  • Keywords: General Psychology
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  • Description: <jats:p> Presented is a summary of 882 homosexual people's responses to 5 open-ended questions about sexual reorientation therapy. Of the 882 participants, 726 reported that they had received reorientation therapy from a professional therapist or a pastoral counselor. As a group, 779 (89.7%) of the participants viewed themselves as “more homosexual than heterosexual,” “almost exclusively homosexual,” or “exclusively homosexual” in their orientation before receiving reorientation therapy or making self-help efforts to change. The majority reported they believed sexual reorientation therapy and various forms of self-help were helpful to them, psychologically, spiritually, and sexually. </jats:p>