Psychoanalysis 3.0

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Ex-Gay Therapy: NPR Forgets Infomercials are not Science

The media is glossing over what is harmful and unscientific about so-called "ex-gay therapy." Instead they broadcast infomercials for the ex-gay movement. The message for anyone thinking of buying what the ex-gay movement is selling is the time-honored warning: "Let the buyer beware." Read More

"ex-gay therapy". THat's funny...

It's funny that these people think that you can physically change the brain.

They have proved that sexual orientation is in fact innate. And they have studies that prove it.
Where's the damn love? Christianity is suppose to be about acceptance and love, but yet these groups are about hating yourself so much that you want to change into something that you physically can't do.

Trying to change your orientation through therapy, is like trying to change your physical sex through therapy... If there ever was a way of doing it, it would be through surgery. You would have to physically change the brain to completely change ones gender.

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