Post tagged with narth

  • Shame and Attachment Loss: Reparative therapy and father-son estrangement

    September 18th, 200910:24 AM ET
    By Warren Throckmorton
    Picking up the narrative on the new book from Joseph Nicolosi, Shame and attachment loss: The practical work of reparative therapy, I want to focus on the family dynamics Nicolosi proposes to be at the source of male homosexuality. There are two basic types of family soil which Nicolosi believes grows some same-sex love: the "classic-triadic f...

  • Joseph Nicolosi's Shame and Attachment Loss

    September 17th, 200909:47 AM ET
    By Warren Throckmorton
    Trying to keep up on the new developments in reparative therapy, I purchased NARTH's co-founder Joseph Nicolosi's new book, Shame and Attachment Loss: The Practical Work of Reparative Therapy. This post is not a review but more of a prep for a review. I am going to provide some excerpts and comments which may form the basis for a more formal review...

  • NARTH authors mislead readers about brain plasticity

    September 08th, 200909:13 AM ET
    By Warren Throckmorton
    This post is a follow up to one on my personal blog about Neil and Briar Whitehead's article titled, "Brain Plasticity Backs Up Orientation Change" published on the Anglican Mainstream. In their article, the Whiteheads liken sexual reorientation to learning to play a musical instrument and proclaim that science leads us to this assumption: Ou...

  • World Magazine on the APA task force

    August 14th, 200901:56 PM ET
    By Warren Throckmorton
    Alisa Harris at World Magazine has a web only article out today discussing the APA task force report. David Pruden at NARTH, NARTH's press release and I are quoted. There are a couple of points in the NARTH presser that are incorrect. Psychologist Warren Throckmorton once met a woman who was in a lifelong lesbian relationship and suddenly, ...

  • Thoughts on the Sexual Reorientation Wars: Time for a truce?

    August 12th, 200903:18 PM ET
    By Warren Throckmorton
    So now that the dust has started to settle from the APA convention in Toronto, let's review the status of the Reorientation Wars. Does therapy change orientation? In anticipation of the APA's report, NARTH fired an opening salvo with their paper (What Research Shows...). Perhaps sensing, incorrectly as it turns out, that the APA would advocate a ...

  • Has the APA altered guidance on homosexuality?

    July 14th, 200906:16 PM ET
    By Warren Throckmorton
    The Southern Voice has an article regarding the recent breathless, echo-chamber enhanced series of articles from some conservative blogs and news services about changes in the American Psychological Association statement regarding sexual orientation. As I noted awhile back, the recent flurry was not new news. My first blog about it was when NARTH'...

  • NARTH's new report is not a new study about sexual orientation change

    July 07th, 200902:51 PM ET
    By Warren Throckmorton
    Seeing some of the press out on the recent NARTH (National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality) monograph, one might think the paper is a new study which demonstrates something that was once unclear. Not so. The first issue of the journal is actually a three part paper which reviews a variety of research studies mixed in with...
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