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Erin, let's arrange for Anderson Cooper. Welcome to the podcast. Therapists claim that they can turn gay people straight and the patients who compare the treatment a mental torture. "Keep them honest", let's get started. We begin the way Anderson does every night, "keeping them honest", not offering opinions or playing favorites. You can get that on the other Cable News Networks. We're just searching for the facts.
Tonight, the facts on a controversial practise called "reparative therapy". Proponents1 say it can turn gay people straight. "Keeping them honest", a mountain of medical research says otherwise. And even though some people claimed it had helped them, even though practitioners2 may use it with the best of intensions, plenty of people say there is nothing reparative or therapeutic3 in what they endured.
"I was manipulating into believing that I could change my sexual orientation4. But instead I was subjected to terrible abuse that mirrored the traumatic assault that I experienced as a young person. What I can tell you is that conversion5 therapy does not work. My family and I have wasted thousands of dollars and many hours on this scam."
That's Chaim Levin, one of four gay men filing suit today against the New Jersey6 counseling center called JONAH. Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing. These four men and the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is representing them, are claiming that JONAH falsely promised cures and used tactics that sound less like therapy and more like mental torture. Things like being made to undergo individual and group sessions in the nude7. Being made to cuddle other same-sex clients and counselors8. Being made to beat an effigy9 of one's mother. Going to gyms and bath houses in order to be nude, the lawsuit10 cliams, with father figures. Beingn subject, the suit is also claims, to ridicule11, and I'm quoting the complain here, as homos and other anti-gay slurs12 that start with a letter F, but it's too offence to repeat here. Sounds a lot like bullying13, doesn't it?
Experts say it amounts to quack14 science. This from the American Psychiatric Association, and I'm quoting now, "In the last four decades, reparative therapists have not produced any rigorous scientific research to substantiate15 their claims of cure. Until there is such research available, the APA recommends that ethical16 practitioners refrain from attemps to change individuals' sexual orientation, keeping in mind the medical dictum to first do no harm."
The stories of harm caused by reparative therapy are what prompted California to recently pass a law barring it for minors17. As the APA warns, the harm can include anxiety, depression, even suicide. Randi Kaye profiled another young man, a man who went through so- called reparative therapy with traumatic results. Here is his story.
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1 proponents | |
n.(某事业、理论等的)支持者,拥护者( proponent的名词复数 ) | |
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n.习艺者,实习者( practitioner的名词复数 );从业者(尤指医师) | |
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adj.治疗的,起治疗作用的;对身心健康有益的 | |
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n.方向,目标;熟悉,适应,情况介绍 | |
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5 conversion | |
n.转化,转换,转变 | |
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adj.裸体的;n.裸体者,裸体艺术品 | |
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n.顾问( counselor的名词复数 );律师;(使馆等的)参赞;(协助学生解决问题的)指导老师 | |
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v.讥讽,挖苦;n.嘲弄 | |
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含糊的发音( slur的名词复数 ); 玷污; 连奏线; 连唱线 | |
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v.恐吓,威逼( bully的现在分词 );豪;跋扈 | |
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n.庸医;江湖医生;冒充内行的人;骗子 | |
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n.未成年人( minor的名词复数 );副修科目;小公司;[逻辑学]小前提v.[主美国英语]副修,选修,兼修( minor的第三人称单数 ) | |
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