Psychiatrist now says homosexuals can change

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May 2000; Volume 24 Issue 5

Psychiatrist now says homosexuals can change

Dr. Robert Spitzer, a well-known and highly influential psychiatrist, has changed his mind, and now says he believes some homosexuals can change their sexual orientation.

Spitzer is Chief of Biometrics Research and Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University in New York. Spitzer was a key figure in the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) 1973 decision to remove homosexuality from its official list of mental health disorders. Even today, the APA decision continues to affect the social debate over homosexuality.

After studying the life histories of and then interviewing 22 ex-homosexuals, Spitzer became convinced that homosexuality was not a necessarily irreversible orientation.

On the Dr. Laura Schlessinger radio show in January, Spitzer said, "I'm convinced from people I have interviewed, that for many of them, they have made substantial changes toward becoming heterosexual. I came to this study skeptical. I now claim that these changes can be sustained."

Then, in February, Spitzer was highlighted in a segment on ex-gays on the ABC news program 20/20, where he again stated that he was convinced "that, for many of [the homosexuals he studied], they made rather remarkable changes in their sexual orientation."

Source: Exodus Update, 3/00