WEdmund Bergler was an Austrian-born American psychoanalyst whose books covered such topics as childhood development, mid-life crises, loveless marriages, gambling, self-defeating behaviors, and homosexuality. He has been described as the most important psychoanalytic theorist of homosexuality in the 1950s.
WGiorgio Giuseppe Antonio Maria Coda is an Italian psychiatrist and professor. He was vicedirector of the mental hospital of Turin and director of villa Azzurra, in Grugliasco (Turin) After the trial, that lasted from 1970 to 1974, he was sentenced for mistreatment to five years in prison, to the payment of court costs and to the interdiction from the medical profession for five years. He has been nicknamed "the electrician" for his misuse of the electroshock therapy.
WRichard A. Cohen is an American psychotherapist and author associated with the ex-gay movement. He is a co-founder of Positive Approaches to Healthy Sexuality (PATH), and the past director of the International Healing Foundation. Cohen's early work as an author and therapist was defined by his personal journey: identifying as a homosexual in adolescence, struggling early in his heterosexual marriage, finding personal and marital healing and with his wife, birthing and raising three children. This became the basis for his advocacy, writing and therapeutic practice with men and women with unwanted same-sex attraction, and ultimately all genders, orientations and relationship challenges.
WThe Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation Bill is a proposed Act of Parliament in New Zealand that proposes banning conversion therapy practices that seek to change or suppress a person's sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.
WJoseph Nicolosi was an American clinical psychologist who advocated and practised "reparative therapy", a form of the pseudoscientific treatment of conversion therapy that he claimed could help people overcome or mitigate their homosexual desires and replace them with heterosexual ones. Nicolosi was a founder and president of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH). Medical institutions warn that conversion therapy is ineffective and may be harmful, and that there is no evidence that sexual orientation can be changed by such treatments.
WS Sushma v. Commissioner of Police is a landmark decision of the Madras High Court in 2021 that prohibited Conversion Therapy in India. The Court suggested comprehensive measures to sensitize the society and various branches of the state and federal government including the Police and judiciary to remove prejudices against the LGBTQIA+ (queer) community. The Court suggested that changes be made to the curricula of schools and universities to educate students on understanding the queer community.
WSigmund Freud was an influential physician and founder of psychoanalysis who treated patients with psychiatric disorders. His views on homosexuality ascribed biological and psychological factors to explain the principal causes of homosexuality. Sigmund Freud believed that humans are born with unfocused sexual libidinal drives, and therefore argued that homosexuality might be a deviation from this.
WCharles W. Socarides was an American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, physician, educator and author. He was born in Brockton, Massachusetts.
WThe Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act is a bill in the United States House of Representatives that if passed would prohibit, as an unfair and deceptive act or practice, commercial sexual orientation and gender identity conversion therapy, and for other purposes.
WThis is a list of jurisdictions in the United States banning conversion therapy, the pseudoscientific practice of attempting to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity using psychological or spiritual interventions. A total of 20 states, as well as the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and 94 municipalities, have banned the practice of conversion therapy on minor clients. Penalties range from fines to imprisonment. The District of Columbia is the only U.S. jurisdiction whose ban also applies to adults. Three states ban the use of state and federal funds for conversion therapy on minors. As of November 20, 2020, any bans in Florida, Georgia, and Alabama are suspended due to a 2–1 decision by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, with Judges Britt Grant and Barbara Lagoa in the majority and Judge Beverly Martin dissenting.
WMilo Yiannopoulos, who has also published as Milo Andreas Wagner and the mononym Milo, is a British far-right, alt right, and alt-lite political commentator, polemicist, public speaker, and writer. His speeches and writings often ridicule Islam, feminism, social justice, and political correctness. Yiannopoulos is a former editor for Breitbart News, a far-right media organisation.