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POPSBBC: "Therapists offer Gay 'treatment'" Potentially Damaging! The Royal College of Psychiatrists says all homosexuals have "a right to protection from therapies that are potentially damaging, particularly those that purport to change sexual orientation". In the US, where there has been heated debate on the issue of "curing" homosexuality, The American Psychiatric Association (APA) has urged all "ethical practitioners to refrain from attempts to change individuals' sexual orientation". However there are organisations which campaign both for an individual's right to seek treatment and a professional's right to offer it. They point to work by Robert Spitzer, a psychiatrist who lobbied for the removal of homosexuality from APA's list of mental illnesses but went on to suggest in a controversial 2001 study that therapy could bring about change in sexual orientation. Researchers in the UK are launching a website to collect stories from around the world about such therapies. ... BBC
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