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The Best of Joseph Nicolosi: Collected Articles by the Originator of Reparative Therapy, is the final book to come from the pen of a bold, original thinker.
Other chapters reveal the dark side of the gay movement, Freud\'s beliefs about homosexuality, and the perspective of a poet and philosopher who says homosexuality is against art.
The book then delves into the role of childhood trauma; the origins of transgenderism; mother-son boundary violations in the childhoods of homosexual men; and the damage inflicted on a child by a narcissistic parent.
This book contains chapters on the origins and meaning of same-sex attraction, and describes how the process of self-understanding can lead to self-acceptance, emphasizing that the client must first accept himself as he is, before change is possible.
They see themselves as heterosexual men with a homosexual problem.
These men don\'t consider themselves gay.
Acting on their attractions interferes with their values, their marriages, and deeply held beliefs of who they really are.
That childhood deficit left them with attractions that they find compelling, but deeply problematic.
Others felt alienated from their fathers and male peers, and grew up with an unfulfilled longing for male affection, attention and approval.
Many of these men were victims of homosexual sexual abuse.
But I\'m troubled by these attractions that prevent me from being who I really am.
Nicolosi\'s clients often told him the following: I know, on some deep level, that I\'m a heterosexual man.
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But the ethical therapist will always look below the surface and ask why, rather than locking the client into an unwanted gay self-identity.
Many contemporary therapists view the client\'s gay feelings as unchangeable and biologically rooted.
Nicolosi\'s research led him to conclude that homosexuality, is rooted in trauma; it is an attempt to repair a deep emotional wound that left the boy alienated from his own natural masculinity.
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Nicolosi believed that our bodies tell us who we are, and that our bodies have made us for heterosexality.
A licensed clinical psychologist, Dr.
His pioneering work ended when he passed away suddenly in March of 2017.
He began this work in 1981 as the Originator of Reparative therapy(R). assisted hundreds of clients with their goal to reduce their same-sex attractions and explore their heterosexual potential.
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