Sexual orientation conversion therapy was the treatment of choice when homosexuality was
thought to be an illness. Despite the declassification of homosexuality as a mental illness …

Paternalistic practices, wherein providers confer a treatment or service upon a person or
persons without their consent, ostensibly by reason of their limited autonomy or diminished …

Promoting pro-environmental behavior faces multiple challenges. Promoting new pro-
environmental behaviors is even more challenging, due to additional barriers, such as …

In recent years, there has been a marked change about both the desirability and feasibility of
attempts to alter a homosexual sexual orientation. In the past, such change was generally …

In Fantasies of Femininity, Jane Ussher focuses on unraveling the contradictory visions of
feminine sexuality: the fact that representations of the definition of woman seethe with …

Grounded in current research, this comprehensive volume lays the found ations for effective,
affirmative therapeutic practice with lesbian, g ay, and bisexual clients. Timely, clinically …

Psychology and Sexual Orientation strives to" come to terms" with lesbian, gay and bisexual
life and with the controversial scientific and sociocultural theories and arguments on the …

Every year, hundreds of gay men and lesbians join ex-gay ministries in an attempt to convert
to non-homosexual Christian lives. In this fascinating study of the transnational ex-gay …

Challenging everything from the mandates of the Catholic Church to the hotly debated ethics
of pornography, and from the controversy surrounding gay rights to issues of gender and …

Therapies designed to change sexual orientation have come under increasing scrutiny from
the profession and the public. The proposition that sexual orientation can be changed …