Conversion Therapy Versus Gay-Affirmative Therapy: Working With Ego-Dissonant Gay Clients
| aut.embargo | No | en_NZ |
| aut.subject.rainbow | bias and discrimination | |
| aut.subject.rainbow | healthcare | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Appel, Stephen | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kirby, Andrew | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-02-05T00:35:28Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-02-05T00:35:28Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2008 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This dissertation explores the issue of doing psychotherapy with ego-dissonant gay male clients. The methodology used is a modified systematic literature review with clinical illustrations. A dichotomy exists in the literature in relation to treating egodissonant gay clients who experience conflict between their sexuality and opposing values and beliefs. Each position tends to respond with a limited, exclusionary choice to either reject or accept one’s sexual orientation. This dissertation examines if there is a way to treat ego-dissonant clients without endorsing homophobic treatments or negating opposing values and beliefs. Freud’s views on homosexuality and sexual reorientation are delineated to inform and contextualise later writings on the subject. A review of conversion therapy and gay-affirmative therapy investigates the evidence of each, following which emerging integrative solutions are examined. Finally, a Kleinian model is proposed for individuals where neither a choice of a side nor comfortable resolution of the conflict seems feasible. While it is proposed that gay-affirmative therapy benefits the majority of ego-dissonant gay clients, this study recognises that each psychotherapeutic paradigm discussed caters, to some degree, to the uniquely different needs of individuals. | en_NZ |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10292/11160 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_NZ |
| dc.publisher | Auckland University of Technology | |
| dc.rights.accessrights | OpenAccess | |
| dc.subject | Psychotherapy | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Gays counselling | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Homosexuality | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Sexuality | en_NZ |
| dc.title | Conversion Therapy Versus Gay-Affirmative Therapy: Working With Ego-Dissonant Gay Clients | en_NZ |
| dc.type | Dissertation | en_NZ |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Auckland University of Technology | |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Health Science | en_NZ |