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Psychiatric harm: conversion therapy

Asa

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"Barack Obama calls for end to 'conversion therapies' for LGBT youth"
US president urges an end to psychiatric therapies that seek to change the sexual orientation of gay, lesbian and transgender people...

The overwhelming scientific evidence demonstrates that conversion therapy, especially when it is practised on young people, is neither medically nor ethically appropriate and can cause substantial harm,’ the White House statement said...

The petition [to ban conversion therapy] was started following the suicide in December of 17-year-old transgender youth Leelah Alcorn, who said she was forced to attend conversion therapy, pulled out of school and isolated...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...or-end-to-conversion-therapies-for-lgbt-youth
 
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Is this the stigma of mental health leading to people being denied the choice of effective treatment?

Or people are realising it's immoral to medicalise the behaviour of a marginalised group on the basis on non-blinded trials that only seem to lead to changes in subjective self-report measures?

Good to see this being 'politicised', although a shame it took forty years.
 
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Sushi

Moderation Resource Albuquerque
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“We’ve found that a combination of group interventions, narrative therapy, and cognitive-behavioral approaches fully eliminates homosexual urges before the individual takes his or her own life,” said program director Christian Weber, adding that many of their biggest success stories are even in stable, heterosexual relationships when they’re found lifeless in their own home or dredged from a nearby body of water. “Of course, some of our patients do relapse back into the gay lifestyle, but even then our committed therapists are typically able to guide them back toward healthy, straight behavior before they end it all in their childhood bedroom or dorm. By the time they’ve swallowed an entire bottle of prescription painkillers, they’ve typically completed a remarkable transformation.”
 
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Is this the stigma of mental health leading to people being denied the choice of effective treatment?

Or are people realising it's immoral to medicalise the behaviour of a marginalised group on the basis on non-blinded trials that only seem to lead to changes in subjective self-report measures?

Good to see this being 'politicised', although a shame it took forty years.

Wessely's come down against this form of quackery:

Simon Wessely
@DrChrisCocking
as indeed do UK psychiatrists. @rcpsych policy opposes it

https://twitter.com/WesselyS/status/586293237620543488
 

Ecoclimber

Senior Member
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Tweet this on Jason report http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16844674

#WhiteHouse @DrFriedenCDC
@SecBurwell @BarackObama How many more suicides #mecfs patients because of CBT/GET? https://tinyurl.com/klfkexk

or Thoughts about Me quotes
#WhiteHouse @DrFriedenCDC @SecBurwell @BarackObama How many more suicides #mecfs patients because of CBT/GET? https://tinyurl.com/klcvtch

or choice to Tweet these or make up your own tweet. ME/CFS patient community should piggyback on Executive policy on conversion therapy.

#WhiteHouse @DrFriedenCDC @SecBurwell @BarackObama Conversion Therapy,CBT/GET therapy = #mecfs patient suicides https://tinyurl.com/klfkexk
https://tinyurl.com/klfkexk
#WhiteHouse @DrFriedenCDC @SecBurwell @BarackObama Conversion Therapy,CBT/GET therapy = #mecfs patient suicides https://tinyurl.com/klcvtch

or use conversion therapy in place of CBT/GET? to take advantage of the recent Obama's policy statement on conversion therapy. This should be in advocacy section as well.
 
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