The last real scientist to look at the etiology and possibilities of psychtherapy was Irving Bieber of the University of Houston, who published a multiyear “longitudinal” study of gay men in 1962 or so. Bieber wasn’t refuted as much as outmaneuvered and “handled” by the homosexual cabal that rolled all three APA’s and “took over” the definition and study of paraphilia in 1972.
Bieber concluded that about a third of male homosexuality was essential (hardwired), and the rest either psychological or habituated (oriented by seduction and initiation) and therefore reachable by reparative therapy.
Thank you -— very interesting information.
Very interesting. This correlates with the opinion of the Austrian "father of psychoanalysis", Sigmund Freud.