News Flash – It’s Still Being Practiced. Why? Conversion therapy persists to this day, despite the fact that the APA declassified homosexuality as a mental illness, removing it from the DSM in 1973. The practice continues despite the 2003 Lawrence v. Texas...
The Origins of the Practice of Conversion TherapyIn 1899, German psychiatrist Albert von Schrenck-Notzing claimed that he could alter a man’s sexual impulses through the use of hypnosis. After 45 hypnosis sessions and some trips to a brothel, the pioneering...
