Does Psychoanalyst Gerald Schoenewolf Have To Tell His Gay Patients They Can't Be Straight?
http://www.queerty.com/does-psychoanalyst-gerald-schoenewolf-have-to-tell-his-gay-patients-they-cant-be-straight-20100102/ Gerald Schoenewolf is a psychoanalyst (that's the Freud-based branch of psychology) in New York, where he's been practicing for 30-years. He is the founder of The Living Center, a psychoanalytic group that "offers eclectic psychotherapy. This means we use whatever method works with a particular patient. Hence, therapy may involve psychoanalysis, cognitive or behavioral approaches." Lovely stuff. But what has us curious about Mr. Schoenewolf are his "subspecialties," which "include the treatment of conflicted couples and psychotherapy with homosexuals who want to be heterosexual." And that he's been blogging about them. Things that make you go hmmmm?
"Not everyone who is gay is happy about being gay, and some gays feel deeply conflicted about it," Schoenewolf writes. "Such gays often go into psychotherapy in order to talk about this issue and work through the conflicts that prevent them from being straight. This is nothing new."
