http://www.bloggernews.net/15656 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Fri, 16 May 2008 07:58:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.bloggernews.net/15656#comment-10080 Warren Throckmorton Sun, 01 Apr 2007 09:11:36 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/15656#comment-10080 I don't disagree up to the last sentence. You're assuming that "internalized attitudes" are all bad. Should an internalized religious identity be focused on to relieve the distress? I do not think that is the therapist's decision to make. See our sexual identity therapy framework for what we believe to be the proper therapeutic stance - www.sexualidentity.blogspot.com. I don’t disagree up to the last sentence. You’re assuming that “internalized attitudes” are all bad. Should an internalized religious identity be focused on to relieve the distress? I do not think that is the therapist’s decision to make. See our sexual identity therapy framework for what we believe to be the proper therapeutic stance - http://www.sexualidentity.blogspot.com.

]]> http://www.bloggernews.net/15656#comment-10031 Romeo Vitelli Sun, 01 Apr 2007 02:18:24 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/15656#comment-10031 If that's what they want, more power to them. But they should be honest about what they want and we as clinicians should be honest about what we can offer to them. We shouldn't be telling them that we can turn them into heterosexuals with the right therapy when we can't. If a client came to me and asked for help to become heterosexual, I would start with why they wanted this and work from there. Usually, it is their own internalized attitudes towards homosexuality that is causing their distress. Treatment to relieve that distress should focus on those attitudes rather than their sexual orientation. If that’s what they want, more power to them. But they should be honest about what they want and we as clinicians should be honest about what we can offer to them. We shouldn’t be telling them that we can turn them into heterosexuals with the right therapy when we can’t. If a client came to me and asked for help to become heterosexual, I would start with why they wanted this and work from there. Usually, it is their own internalized attitudes towards homosexuality that is causing their distress. Treatment to relieve that distress should focus on those attitudes rather than their sexual orientation.

]]> http://www.bloggernews.net/15656#comment-9995 Warren Throckmorton Sat, 31 Mar 2007 23:07:57 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/15656#comment-9995 Whatever happens with these people, do you support the right of bisexuals to seek therapy to help them suppress their homosexual attractions if this is what want to do? Whatever happens with these people, do you support the right of bisexuals to seek therapy to help them suppress their homosexual attractions if this is what want to do?

]]> http://www.bloggernews.net/15656#comment-9951 Romeo Vitelli Sat, 31 Mar 2007 15:43:24 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/15656#comment-9951 Is there any real evidence that change can happen at all? Do the anecdotes reporting successful change simply involve bisexuals who have learned to suppress their same-sex leanings? If so, that wouldn't make them heterosexual, they would just be bisexuals who have learned to suppress their same-sex leanings. Is there any real evidence that change can happen at all? Do the anecdotes reporting successful change simply involve bisexuals who have learned to suppress their same-sex leanings? If so, that wouldn’t make them heterosexual, they would just be bisexuals who have learned to suppress their same-sex leanings.

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