At 9:24 PM -0400 5/16/01, Dave Myers wrote:
>Curious about Robert Spitzer's widely reported study of '200 Subjects Who
>Claim to Have Changed Their Sexual Orientation from Homosexual to
>Heterosexual,' I obtained a copy last weekend, drafted a synopsis and some
>reflections for my file, and then had a cordial exchange of e-mails with
>him.
I think that the key word in here is *claim*.
As well as being based on _claims_ of changes in sexual orientation made
over the phone, it sounds like other individuals with their own agenda are
making much stronger claims than Spitzer himself.
>From your very nice analysis:
> .... What the
> sexual reorientation efforts did for these folks, Spitzer
> concludes, is not trigger a 180 degree U-turn but rather move them
> from one point to another "along a multidimensional continuum"-and
> with accompanying increases in personal well-being for these
> conflicted individuals.
* PAUL K. BRANDON [EMAIL PROTECTED] *
* Psychology Dept Minnesota State University, Mankato *
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