Table of Contents
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- Preface
- Section I: Editors’ Introductions
- 1. The Politics and Science of Reparative Therapy (Kenneth J.
Zucker)
- 2. Gold or Lead? Introductory Remarks on Conversions (Jack
Drescher)
- Section II: Perspectives on Changing Sexual
Orientation
- 3. Position Statement on Therapies Focused on Attempts to
Change Sexual Orientation (Reparative or Conversion Therapies)
(Commission on Psychotherapy by Psychiatrists [COPP] and American
Psychiatric Association)
- 4. Can Some Gay Men and Lesbians Change Their Sexual
Orientation? 200 Participants Reporting a Change from Homosexual to
Heterosexual Orientation (Robert L. Spitzer)
- Section III: Commentaries on the Spitzer Study and Dr.
Spitzer’s Response from Archives of Sexual Behavior
- 5. Can Sexual Orientation Change? A Long-Running Saga (John
Bancroft)
- 6. Understanding the Self-Reports of Reparative Therapy
Successes (A. Lee Beckstead)
- 7. The Malleability of Homosexuality: A Debate Long Overdue (A.
Dean Byrd)
- 8. A Methodological Critique of Spitzer’s Research on
Reparative Therapy (Helena M. Carlson)
- 9. Are Converts to Be Believed? Assessing Sexual Orientation
Conversions (Kenneth M. Cohen and Ritch C. Savin-Williams)
- 10. Reconsidering Sexual Desire in the Context of Reparative
Therapy (Lisa M. Diamond)
- 11. The Spitzer Study and the Culture Wars (Jack
Drescher)
- 12. Sexual Orientation Change: A Study of Atypical Cases
(Richard C. Friedman)
- 13. The Politics of Sexual Choices (John H. Gagnon)
- 14. Too Flawed: Don’t Publish (Lawrence Hartmann)
- 15. Evaluating Interventions to Alter Sexual Orientation:
Methodological and Ethical Considerations (Gregory M.
Herek)
- 16. Guttman Scalability Confirms the Effectiveness of
Reparative Therapy (Scott L. Hershberger)
- 17. Methodological Limitations Do Not Justify the Claim That
Same-Sex Attraction Changed Through Reparative Therapy (Craig A.
Hill and Jeannie D. DiClementi)
- 18. Initiating Treatment Evaluations (Donald F. Klein)
- 19. A Positive View of Spitzer’s Research and an Argument for
Further Research (Richard B. Krueger)
- 20. Penile Plethysomography and Change in Sexual Orientation
(Nathaniel McConaghy)
- 21. Finally, Recognition of a Long-Neglected Population (Joseph
Nicolosi)
- 22. Sexual Orientation Change and Informed Consent in
Reparative Therapy (Bruce Rind)
- 23. Reparative Science and Social Responsibility: The Concept
of a Malleable Core As Theoretical Challenge and Psychological
Comfort (Paula C. Rodríguez Rust)
- 24. A Candle in the Wind: Spitzer’s Study of Reparative Therapy
(Donald S. Strassberg)
- 25. Spitzer’s Oversight: Ethical-Philosophical Underpinnings of
Reparative Therapy (Marcus C. Tye)
- 26. Sexual Diversity and Change Along a Continuum of Bisexual
Desire (Paul L. Vasey and Drew Rendall)
- 27. Science and the Nuremberg Code: A Question of Ethics and
Harm (Milton L. Wainberg,
Donald Bux, Alex Carballo-Dieguez, Gary W. Dowsett, Terry Dugan,
Marshall Forstein, Karl Goodkin, Joyce Hunter, Thomas Irwin, Paulo
Mattos, Karen McKinnon, Ann O’Leary, Jeffrey Parsons, and Edward
Stein)
- 28. Sexual Reorientation Therapy: Is It Ever Ethical? Can It
Ever Change Sexual Orientation? (Jerome C. Wakefield)
- 29. Heterosexual Identities, Sexual Reorientation Therapies,
and Science (Roger L. Worthington)
- 30. How Spitzer’s Study Gives a Voice to the Disenfranchised
Within a Minority Group (Mark A. Yarhouse)
- 31. Study Results Should Not Be Dismissed and Justify Further
Research on the Efficacy of Sexual Reorientation Therapy (Robert
L
About the Author
Jack Drescher, MD, is a fellow and a training and supervising
analyst at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry,
Psychoanalysis and Psychology and a clinical assistant professor of
psychiatry at SUNY-Downstate. A distinguished fellow of the
American Psychiatric Association, he chairs the APA’s Committee on
Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Issues. Dr. Drescher is a founding member
of the Committee on Sexual Minorities of the Group for the
Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP) and former chair of its Committee
on Human Sexuality. He is author of Psychoanalytic Therapy and the
Gay Man (1998, The Analytic Press), co-editor, with Ariel Shidlo
and Michael Schroeder, of Sexual Conversion Therapy: Ethical,
Clinical, and Research Perspectives (2001, The Haworth Medical
Press), and edits The Analytic Press’s Bending Psychoanalysis book
series. Dr. Drescher is in full-time private practice in New York
City. Kenneth J. Zucker, PhD, is professor of psychology and
psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He is the head of the
Gender Identity Service in the Child, Youth, and Family Program at
the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. He has served on the
DSM-III-R, DSM-IV, and DSM-IV-TR Subcommittees on Gender Identity
Dis[1]orders. He co-authored with Susan J. Bradley Gender Identity
Disor[1]der and Psychosexual Problems in Children and Adolescents
(Guil[1]ford Press, 1995). Since 2002, he has been the editor of
Archives of Sexual Behavior and is currently president-elect of the
International Academy of Sex Research.