Stories
- Article
The indelible harm caused by conversion therapy
With first-hand evidence from two powerful testimonies, neurologist Jules Montague explores the destructive history of conversion therapy, a punitive treatment designed to ‘cure’ people of homosexuality.
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The shocking ‘treatment’ to make lesbians straight
Being a lesbian has never been a crime in the UK, but 50 years ago, some psychologists experimented with treatments to try to ‘cure’ women of their orientation. Find out what this involved.
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Can our sexual desires be transformed?
In the 1950s, many psychiatrists thought that homosexuality could be reformed. One found that it couldn’t – and his discoveries led to a change in the law.
Catalogue
- Audio
Aversion therapy : sweet dreams : gender and anger.
Date: 2005- Books
Aversion therapy and behaviour disorders : an analysis / S. Rachman and J. Teasdale ; foreword by H.J. Eysenck.
Rachman, Stanley.Date: 1969- Videos
Undercover doctor. Cure me, I'm gay.
Date: 2014- Books
Apomorphine / J.Y. Dent.
Dent, John Yerbury, 1888-1962.Date: [1944?]- Books
Apomorphine in the treatment of anxiety states : with especial reference to alcoholism / by John Y. Dent.
Dent, John Yerbury, 1888-1962.Date: [1934?]