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Author : Douglas C Haldeman
Release : 2021-11-23
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Book Rating : 111/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Case Against Conversion "Therapy" by : Douglas C Haldeman
Download or read book The Case Against Conversion "Therapy" written by Douglas C Haldeman. This book was released on 2021-11-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the history and effects of so-called conversion "therapy" on LGBT people.
Author : Douglas C. Haldeman
Release : 2022
Genre : Gays
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Book Rating : 128/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Case Against Conversion "therapy" by : Douglas C. Haldeman
Download or read book The Case Against Conversion "therapy" written by Douglas C. Haldeman. This book was released on 2022. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Many LGBTQ youth are still forced into harmful "treatments" with devastating mental health consequences. This volume explores the history, effects, and danger of so-called conversion therapy. Because conversion "therapy" is not actually therapeutic, it is now more accurately referred to as sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE) or gender identity change efforts (GICE). What does the record show about the efficacy and effects of SOCE and GICE? What motivates individuals to seek these harmful treatments, either for themselves or for their children? This book synthesizes findings from a vast literature base to answer these and other important questions, in hopes of fully discrediting SOCE and GICE once and for all. Over the last four decades, considerable research has showed SOCE to be not only ineffective, but harmful. As a result of these findings, professional organizations such as the American Psychological Association (APA) have denounced the practice and recommended affirmative, supportive treatment instead. Although SOCE have been widely discredited, they remain legal in most states and continue to be practiced with lesbian, gay, and bisexual children and adolescents. Furthermore, as the past 20 years have seen an increase in gender nonconforming and transgender individuals, there has been a similar rise in efforts to socially reprogram gender nonconforming children and adolescents. This volume is grounded in the principle long embraced by the scientific and healthcare communities-that same-sex attraction and gender nonconformity are not signs of psychopathology. Rather, sexual and gender minority individuals should be supported in embracing their own identities. This affirmative approach to practice with sexual and gender minorities is consistent with decades of APA policy and ethics"--
Author : Jonathan Tcheng
Release : 2017
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Book Rating : 478/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis "Have You Considered Your Parents' Happiness?" by : Jonathan Tcheng
Download or read book "Have You Considered Your Parents' Happiness?" written by Jonathan Tcheng. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nick White
Release : 2017-06-06
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 682/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis How to Survive a Summer by : Nick White
Download or read book How to Survive a Summer written by Nick White. This book was released on 2017-06-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Named One of Book Riot’s BEST QUEER BOOKS OF 2017** “Packed with story and drama … If Tennessee Williams’s ‘Suddenly Last Summer’ could be transposed to the 21st-century South, where queer liberation co-exists alongside the stubborn remains of fire and brimstone, it might read something like this juicy, moving hot mess of a novel.” –Tim Murphy, The Washington Post A searing debut novel centering around a gay-to-straight conversion camp in Mississippi and a man's reckoning with the trauma he faced there as a teen. Camp Levi, nestled in the Mississippi countryside, is designed to “cure” young teenage boys of their budding homosexuality. Will Dillard, a midwestern graduate student, spent a summer at the camp as a teenager, and has since tried to erase the experience from his mind. But when a fellow student alerts him that a slasher movie based on the camp is being released, he is forced to confront his troubled history and possible culpability in the death of a fellow camper. As past and present are woven together, Will recounts his “rehabilitation,” eventually returning to the abandoned campgrounds to solve the mysteries of that pivotal summer, and to reclaim his story from those who have stolen it. With a masterful confluence of sensibility and place, How to Survive a Summer is a searing, unforgettable novel that introduces an exciting new literary voice. “Clear and moving, revealing White’s talent in evoking the complexities of the rural South.” —Publishers Weekly
Author : Garrard Conley
Release : 2016-05-10
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 556/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Boy Erased by : Garrard Conley
Download or read book Boy Erased written by Garrard Conley. This book was released on 2016-05-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling memoir about identity, love and understanding. Now a major motion picture starring Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, and Lucas Hedges, directed by Joel Edgerton. "Every sentence of the story will stir your soul" (O Magazine). The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality. When Garrard was a nineteen-year-old college student, he was outed to his parents, and was forced to make a life-changing decision: either agree to attend a church-supported conversion therapy program that promised to “cure” him of homosexuality; or risk losing family, friends, and the God he had prayed to every day of his life. Through an institutionalized Twelve-Step Program heavy on Bible study, he was supposed to emerge heterosexual, ex-gay, cleansed of impure urges and stronger in his faith in God for his brush with sin. Instead, even when faced with a harrowing and brutal journey, Garrard found the strength and understanding to break out in search of his true self and forgiveness. By confronting his buried past and the burden of a life lived in shadow, Garrard traces the complex relationships among family, faith, and community. At times heart-breaking, at times triumphant, this memoir is a testament to love that survives despite all odds.
