Ethical concerns raised when patients seek to change same-sex attractions

Sexual Conversion Therapy: Ethical, Clinical and Research Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 181-210

  Drescher, Jack ^a  

^a WILLIAM ALANSON WHITE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antihomosexual bias; Culture wars; Ethical issues; Ethics; Gay and lesbian patients; Gender stereotyping; Homosexuality; Psychiatric; Psychotherapy; Reparative therapy; Respect for patients; Sexual conversion therapy

Indexed keywords

EID: 85057672149     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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