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>Traditionally, psychoanalysts have endorsed conversion therapy, and many still do. So it's not only Lacan. Sigmund Freud believed that conversion is unlikely to succeed. But his daughter Anna accounts for 8 patients out of which 50% attained conversion.
>Irving Bieber's conscientious study from 1962 finally defeated the pessimism. Of 106 homosexuals/bisexuals undergoing psychoanalysis, 27% were converted to exclusive heterosexuality. 19% went from exclusive homosexuality to exclusive heterosexuality. Several years later it was verified in follow-up studies. The results have been verified by independent researchers. Mayerson and Lief accounts for a study of 19 patients. At follow-up studies after around 4.5 years, 22% had gone from exclusive homosexuality to exclusive heterosexuality.
>NARTH presents a questionnaire study of 882 former homosexuals. 776 underwent professional therapy. The success rate was 33%. Notably, only 13% saw themselves as exclusively homosexual after treatment. >References
>Anna Freud, Some clinical remarks concerning the treatment of male homosexuality. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis. 30: 195. (1951). >Irving Bieber et al., Homosexuality - a psychoanalytic study of male homosexuals (1962). >Mayerson & Lief, Psychoterapy of Homosexuals in Marmor J. (ed.), Sexual Inversion, p.302 (1965).
