Is it possible to overcome homosexuality

Download the PDF to view the article, as well as its associated figures and tables. Homosexuality is complex. To change the sexual orientation in patients distressed about their homosexuality is even more complicated but still possible.

This book provides a carefully detailed description of how creative and dynamic psychotherapy can help a troubled male homosexual to overcome his own resistance to change, and to sustain some degree of heterosexual adjustment.

The author, a practicing psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, initially states: "The homosexual does not exist. Only people who fantasy, feel, and act homosexually exist. Homosexual life styles and subcultures exist. After extensively quoting researchers like Kinsey and Bieber on the definition and etiologies of homosexuality, Dr.

Hatterer presents his own well-organized case material to illustrate the full spectrum of homosexuality, treated successfully or less successfully. His study extends over 18 years and includes patients drawn from both clinics and private practice.

Gilula MF. She has demonstrated that sexual arousal is subject to Pavlovian conditioning, the method of repeatedly pairing one stimulus with another until, eventually, the first triggers an expectation of the second. Hoffmann's work shows that both men and women can be conditioned to become sexually aroused by exposure to a cue, such as an odor or object. Along the same lines, people can be conditioned by their life experiences, learning to become aroused by something or someone "only after having a sexual experience with them," Hoffmann wrote in a February review paper in the Archives of Sexual Behavior.

Sexual experiences affect our arousal patterns by altering what activities or features of sexual partners arouse us, Hoffmann said.

But can people ever be conditioned to become aroused by members of their non-preferred sex? After this learning experience, the latter group of quails maintained a sexual preference for males, suggesting that they were being sexually oriented through learning.

However, their presumed natural predilection for females was not lost: Another experiment showed it was much easier to reorient those male quails toward females through "reverse learning" than it was to try and reorient males who had already had sex with females toward other males.

Other experiments suggest similar effects can occur in rats. By conditioning the animals to prefer mates of their non-preferred sex, and then conditioning them to revert back, the researchers showed that the animals' sexual preferences were somewhat fluid.

Humans might not be so malleable — other experiments show conditioning typically works better and faster for animals than it does for people — but according to Hoffmann, some of us might be. Read only this over and over until you have fully embraced our reading of the Bible. Don't watch porn again, it's only a gay thing , don't go on gay websites, and most of all, certainly don't associate with gay people.

Any of those things might make you feel like your homosexuality is a natural part of your identity and can be accepted by those around you. Forget that we told you to shut yourself away from most of the world, and ignore the idea that maybe gay people feel so alone because of the discriminatory and hateful attitudes that they face, helped by people like us.

Feeling alone? Try not being so gay. All those people who called you "faggot" and told you that you were going to Hell? They really had your best interests at heart. Apologize profusely. Only when you are "utterly broken" will you find God and freedom. Reduce yourself to nothing so we can shape you how we want. This is the most important lesson of all.