found: Work cat.: Conley, Garrard. Boy erased : a memoir, 2016:dust jacket (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) p. 89 (The only therapy I'd experienced was the ex-gay therapy I'd had)
found: Wikipedia, Nov. 10, 2016:Conversion therapy (Conversion therapy is psychological treatment or spiritual counseling designed to change a person's sexual orientation from homosexual or bisexual to heterosexual. The term reparative therapy has been used as a synonym for conversion therapy in general, but it has been argued that strictly speaking it refers to a specific kind of therapy associated with Elizabeth Moberly and Joseph Nicolosi)
found: Wareham, H.C. Survivor: MIT grad student Samuel Brinton remembers 'ex-gay' therapy, 2011, via LGBTQ nation website, viewed on Nov. 10, 2016(Samuel Brinton is not afraid to say he's gay. ... The 23-year-old Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) graduate student is the son of two Southern Baptist ministers, and endured years of reparative therapy designed to "cure" him of his homosexuality while living in Kansas)
found: Reparative therapy website, via LGBTQ nation website, Nov. 10, 2016(ex-gay therapy; conversion therapy; gay conversion therapy; gay-conversion therapy; 'gay conversion' therapy)
found: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender health disparities : executive summary of a policy position paper from the American College of Physicians, via Annals of internal medicine website, July 21, 2015, viewed on Nov. 10, 2016(The College opposes the use of "conversion," "reorientation," or "reparative" therapy for the treatment of LGBT persons; The core basis for "conversion," "reorientation," or "reparative" therapy, which is generally defined as therapy aiming at changing the sexual orientation of lesbian women and gay men, is mostly based on religious or moral objections to homosexuality or the belief that a homosexual person can be "cured" of their presumed illness)
found: Just the facts about sexual orientation and youth, 2008, via American Psychological Association website, viewed on Nov. 10, 2016:p. 2 (Sexual orientation conversion therapy refers to counseling and psychotherapy to attempt to eliminate individuals' sexual desires for members of their own sex. Typically, sexual orientation conversion therapy is promoted by providers who have close ties to religious institutions and organizations.) p. 5 (The terms reparative therapy and sexual orientation conversion therapy refer to counseling and psychotherapy aimed at eliminating or suppressing homosexuality)
found: Journal of gay & lesbian psychotherapy, v. 5, iss. 3-4 (2002):p. 87 (sexual reorientation therapy; reparative/conversion therapy) p. 88 (Sexual reorientation therapies, commonly referred to as conversion or reparative therapies, have been developed for individuals who sense themselves to be "homosexual" and find this identity incongruent; For purposes of this article, the term, "sexual reorientation therapy" is used as an umbrella category for the entire enterprise of attempting a change in sexual orientation via therapy; the terms "conversion" and "reparative" therapy are used synonymously for those treatments that are religious in nature and utilize a gender-identity etiology)
