Spitzer Reassesses His 2003 Study of Reparative Therapy of Homosexuality

Severalmonthsago,ItoldtheEditorofArchivesofBehaviorthat,
because of my revised view of my study of reparative therapy
changing sexual orientation (Spitzer, 2003a),1 I was considering
writing something that would acknowledge that I now judged the
major critiques of the study as largely correct. After discussing
my revised view of the study with Gabriel Arana (see Arana,
2012), a reporter for The American Prospect, and with Malcolm
Ritter, an Associated Press science writer, I decided that I had to
make public my current thinking about the study. Here it is.