April 17, 2014

The following excerpts are from the article “Willful Blindness to the Facts: How the UK’s Professional Bodies Choose to Ignore Science” by Phelim McIntyre on the Voice of the Voiceless website: “In February 2014 the major professional bodies for counsellors and psychotherapists … produced a document with the pro-gay therapy group Pink Therapy and the gay rights lobby group Stonewall.”

“Called “Conversion Therapy Consensus Statement” this document, on behalf of the Department of Health, claims to provide those seeking therapy, those seeking to offer therapy, and those seeking to refer people for therapy the best advice on what to do when someone has unwanted homosexual feelings. I emphasize the word claim as this is what it fails to do. In fact the document does the complete opposite. Not only does it fail to provide any proper scientific basis for its claims it deliberately misleads the reader as to what science does say by ignoring the research out there. In doing so the various mental health bodies willing put the mental health of potential clients at risk.” …