What do psychotherapists say about sexual-orientation change?
” The pamphlet “Just the Facts” fails to reveal that many respected professionals disagree with the pamphlet’s point-of-view. And “Just the Facts” fails to acknowledge the importance of self-determination and choice in counseling. The professional membership of NARTH (The National Association of Research and Therapy of Homosexuality), confirms that change is possible. NARTH asserts that clients–including teenagers–have the right to consider all options. The following professionals have expressed support for the client’s right to self-determination. Robert Spitzer, M.D., the psychiatrist who is known as the “architect of the 1973 diagnostic manual” that normalized homosexuality, recently expressed serious concern about the movement against sexual-reorientation therapy. He cites findings from his own research: “I’m convinced from people I have interviewed…many of them…have made substantial changes toward becoming heterosexual. I came to this study skeptical. I now claim that these
