Spitzer Reassesses His 2003 Study of Reparative Therapy of Homosexuality

Arch Sex Behav (2012) 41:757 DOI 10.1007/s10508-012-9966-y

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Spitzer Reassesses His 2003 Study of Reparative Therapy of Homosexuality

Robert L. Spitzer

Published online: 24 May 2012 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012

Severalmonthsago,ItoldtheEditorofArchivesofBehaviorthat, because of my revised view of my study of reparative therapy changing sexual orientation (Spitzer, 2003a),1 I was considering writingsomethingthatwouldacknowledgethatInowjudgedthe major critiques of the study as largely correct. After discussing my revised view of the study with Gabriel Arana (see Arana, 2012), a reporter for The American Prospect, and with Malcolm Ritter, an Associated Press science writer, I decided that I had to make public my current thinking about the study. Here it is.

Basic Research Question

From the beginning, it was: Can some version of reparative therapy...