The View from Irving Bieber's Couch: “Heads I Win, Tails You Lose”

Moor, P.

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“…Such a solution, however, exacts great cost in the form of personal and emotional loss (Davidson, 2000; Haldeman, 2001). If one attempts to minimize one's sexual nature, one risks giving up a profound avenue of connection with, and growth through, another human being (Duberman, 2001; DuBowski, 2001; Moor, 2001); if one attempts to minimize one's religious orientation, one risks losing the community in which one has found nurture, meaning, and a sense of belonging (e.g., Ford, 2001). The greater the conflict between sexual and religious identities, the more difficult their integration and the greater the perceived loss in choosing one over the other.…”

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“…Helping the client formulate a sense of purpose, both spiritually and existentially, for the struggle itself and for the way he or she will choose to carry on is essential given the high risk for depression and suicide in this population (e.g., Ford, 2001; Moor, 2001; Schroeder & Shidlo, 2001). In this context, finding points of connection between religious and sexual orientations may be particularly important.…”

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Continuing to depolarize the debate on sexual orientation and religion: Identity and the therapeutic process.

Bartoli

Gillem

2008

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice

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Potential identity conflicts arising at the intersection of sexual and religious orientations are examined.Using case examples, a therapeutic process that explores clients' intersecting identities, belief structures, and life experiences is described. This therapeutic approach is aimed at giving personal meaning to the conflict between sexual orientation and religion, allowing clients to seek identity resolutions that are flexible and do not compromise well-being. Multicultural counseling, psychology of religion, symbolic interactionism, and identity development theories provide frameworks for an analysis of the nature of the conflict and its potential resolutions. Countertransference issues arising from ethical and social justice considerations are also discussed.

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Continuing to depolarize the debate on sexual orientation and religion: Identity and the therapeutic process.

Bartoli

Gillem

2008

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice

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“…[ 42 ] and Socarides [ 43 ], analysts whose claims of psychoanalytic “cures” of homosexuality were broadly accepted by their professional community although never verified in any meaningful or empirical way (cf. Moor [ 44 ]; Tripp [ 45 ]).…”

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Out of DSM: Depathologizing Homosexuality

Drescher

2015

Behavioral Sciences

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In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) removed the diagnosis of “homosexuality” from the second edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). This resulted after comparing competing theories, those that pathologized homosexuality and those that viewed it as normal. In an effort to explain how that decision came about, this paper reviews some historical scientific theories and arguments that first led to the placement of homosexuality in DSM-I and DSM-II as well as alternative theories that eventually led to its removal from DSM III and subsequent editions of the manual. The paper concludes with a discussion of the sociocultural aftermath of that 1973 decision.

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“…Increased depression, suicidality, and internalized homophobia and delay of developmental tasks were among the many harms listed by Shidlo and Schroeder's sample (see Beckstead & Morrow, 2004, for more information). Additionally, Duberman (1992), Ford (2001), Moor (2001), and those recruited from the Human Rights Campaign (2000) presented personal accounts of increased self-hatred, confusion, isolation, and failure that they experienced as a result of undergoing such treatments. In a description of his clinical work with men who had undergone conversion therapy, Haldeman (2001) identified the following harms: depression related to loss, misinformation, intimacy avoidance, sexual dysfunction, demasculinization, and abandonment of spirituality and religion.…”

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Conversion Therapies for Same-Sex Attracted Clients in Religious Conflict

Morrow

Beckstead

2004

The Counseling Psychologist

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Despite a long history of viewing homosexuality as pathological and in need of change, the majority of mental health professions have, during the past 30 years, adopted statements that have depathologized lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals. However, concurrent with these advances has been a rise in religious and therapeutic approaches to sexual reorientation (conversion or “reparative”) therapies. Recent scholarship highlights these controversies and the benefits and harms experienced by clients who have sought such interventions. This major contribution extends extant scholarship to include predisposing environmental and personality variables that lead same-sex attracted individuals in religious conflict to conversion therapies, an understanding of the journey to and through such therapies, and clinical implications and recommendations for working with these clients in a manner that does not contribute to further conflict.

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The View from Irving Bieber's Couch: “Heads I Win, Tails You Lose”

Cited by 9 publications

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Continuing to depolarize the debate on sexual orientation and religion: Identity and the therapeutic process.

Continuing to depolarize the debate on sexual orientation and religion: Identity and the therapeutic process.

Out of DSM: Depathologizing Homosexuality

Conversion Therapies for Same-Sex Attracted Clients in Religious Conflict

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