[LCC] Therapists and sexual orientation

[Terrence Lockyer]

The BBC reports at

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/health/7963828.stm

on a study finding that a significant minority of
therapists belonging to "the main United Kingdom
psychotherapy and psychiatric organisations" are still
offering treatments to "cure" or reduce homosexual
orientation.  The paper,

 - Annie Bartlett, Glenn Smith, and Michael King, "The
response of mental health professionals to clients
seeking help to change or redirect same-sex sexual
orientation", BMC Psychiatry 2009, 9:11

is available in provisional form in an open access PDF
from

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-244X/9/11/abstract

and will later be available in final PDF and HTML form.


Terrence Lockyer
Johannesburg, South Africa