Psychotherapists have been told by their biggest professional body that it is unethical for them to try to "convert" people from being gay to straight.
The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy has written to its members, who number nearly 30,000, to inform them of new guidelines.
The BACP "opposes any psychological treatment such as "reparative" or "conversion" therapy which is based upon the assumption that homosexuality is a mental disorder, or based on the premise that the client/patient should change his/her sexuality," the letter says.
It ends: "There is no scientific, rational or ethical reason to treat people who identify within a range of human sexualities any differently from those who identify solely as heterosexual."
Conversion, or reparative, therapy generally involves talking, but electro-convulsive therapy was used to "cure" gay patients as recently as the 1980s. Chemical castration was also used...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/sexual-conversion-therapy-unethical-pscyhotherapists-told-8193159.html
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