Reparative Therapy of Male Homosexuality: A New Clinical Approach [Paperback]

Joseph Nicolosi (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1997

This book explores a reparative psychotherapy based on an understanding of the development of gender identity, offering to help the non-gay homosexual, that is, one who is unhappy with his sexual orientation.
A Jason Aronson Book

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Along with the rising tide of homosexual emancipation, there is, both in the U.S. and Europe, an increasing demand from homosexual people troubled over their inner condition, for sympathetic, constructive, and--as far as possible--reconstructive help. Nicolosi offers a sensible alternative route. (Gerald J. M. van den Aardweg )

Offers hope to the thousands of men who do not want to feel coerced by either their own internal conflicts or by outside political pressures to live a life inimical to who they are and to who they want to be. (Althea J. Horner )

Product Details

• Paperback: 374 pages
• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc. (October 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0765701421
• ISBN-13: 978-0765701428
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #889,809 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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45 of 62 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Unique Voice in a Fraught Debate, July 25, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Reparative Therapy of Male Homosexuality: A New Clinical Approach (Paperback)

I think Doctor Nicolosi is somewhat prejudiced (I hope I am not anti-gay in any way). He is also to some relgiously motivated (which raises my suspicions considerably). Nevertheless, I believe it is a unique resource for heterosexual men whose erotic life has been dominated by same sex attraction. It illustrates clearly why that previous sentence is not an utter contradiction in terms.

Nicolosi expresses the nature of male-male attraction as it affects some men - including myself - in a more lucid and humane way than I have ever come across elsewhere. For a long time I have travelled alone with my view of why I spent all my teens and most of my twenties fetishising maleness and being very insecure in my own. This book and Nicolosi's 'Healing Homosexuality : Case Stories of Reparative Therapy' which contains very similar themes to this book, have been a revalation to me.

Another reviewer here criticises the book as psychobabble. Nicolosi's book probably does read lik! e psychobabble if you don't know what it is like to be stuck with the dilemma that you prefer men, believe you are strong enough to come out, but just don't want to because you know something's not right. The reason why it's not right is because, for some men, there gayness is a symptom of the fact they never felt like other men and consciously or unconsciously craved to be men, but never knew how.

That is my story. The great objection that might be raised, which Nicolosi deals with neatly, is that I have been conditioned to hate gays and hate gay-ness in myself by a society which does not accept nonconformity. That's where my self-hatred comes from. For me, that's psychobabble.

Nicolosi also presents a clear critique of the virulence with which some gay men react to the notion that there may be those with similar desires to their own who believe they would like to change and can change to a fundamental heterosexual orientation. Like Nicolosi I think this smacks of the sa! me doctrinare and bigoted viewpoint which gay men - rightly! - feel they are too often faced with.

27 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A bold voice of wisdom amidst the roar of popular opinion!, July 30, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Reparative Therapy of Male Homosexuality: A New Clinical Approach (Paperback)

Nicolosi has written a fine work that speaks for countless homosexually-oriented men who do not choose to embrace the "gay life." This timely and greatly needed book represents those men who find themselves attracted to other men, yet know that their ultimate fulfillment and wholeness won't be found by "coming out." They're not confused. Rather, these men have chosen a decisively bold and courageous counter-cultural journey of inner-healing and healthy relating that has often left them ignored and unrecognized. That is, until now!

18 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pioneering work with much hope, May 3, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Reparative Therapy of Male Homosexuality: A New Clinical Approach (Paperback)

After hearing Nicolosi in a conference I was interested that he has recently claimed to continue this work on over 500 patients. His work and book seem to be sound and support the view that dominated psychology and homosexuality a few decades ago. Recent research has made many claims in support of homosexuality which has been unscientific. Nicolosi rationally and thoroughly discusses homosexual behavior as a symptom of a disorder rather than a genetically inherited lifestyle. His work is sound and his research hard to dispute. I believe his research will be the pioneering work for the future of sexuality studies. This book is difficult to read but is of great help to those trying to find sound research and work on helping homosexuals return to heterosexualty.