Inside Ex-Gay Therapy: Homosexual Behavior Is A Fantasy Addiction To A Wounded Gender Identity
By Zack Ford on Jan 29, 2013 at 3:11 pm
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/01/29/1511421/inside-ex-gay-therapy-homosexual-behavior-is-a-fantasy-addiction-to-a-wounded-gender-identity/?mobile=ncJoseph Nicolosi, founder of ex-gay group NARTH and trainer of many other ex-gay therapists, is back with another brief article attempting to explain his perspective on the nature of homosexuality.
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What Nicolosi is trying to suggest is that gay people (and "the extreme case of transsexuals") were somehow sent the wrong messages by their parents about how they are supposed to understand their own gender. This leads to a sense of inner conflict that they then address through compulsively trying to fulfill that "false" identity. Essentially, he thinks that gay people are just actors cast in the wrong role who don't know how escape the performance because they believe they are trying to fix some kind of "past trauma" by acting it out.
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Homosexual Behavior as Reparative Theatre
Submitted by Admin on January 29, 2013 – 8:53 am
http://narth.com/2013/01/homosexual-behavior-as-reparative-theatre/By Joesph Nicolosi, Ph.D.
The Self-State distinction essential to Reparative theory finds theoretical support in the writings of Joyce McDougall. In her clinical studies, she confirms Reparative theory's understanding of homosexual enactment as a gender-based self-reparation; i.e., a means of "repairing" a wound in gender identity.
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The compulsive/repetitive enactment of these rituals represents a symbolic attempt to resolve psychic conflict caused by a problematic parental message regarding the child's sexuality. In the extreme case of transsexuals, for example, McDougall reports that her patients..."felt that at last they would be recognized by the mother and what she had always unconsciously desired for them" (McDougall, 2000, p.186). These "erotic scenarios" serve to safeguard the feeling of sexual identity but are a technique of psychic survival in that they preserve the feeling of subjective identity. As "compulsive neo-sexual inventions," they represent the best possible solution that the child of the past was able to find in the face of contradictory parental communications regarding gender identity and sex role. "And they come to the child or the adolescent as revelation of what his or her sexuality is, along with the sometimes painful recognition that it is somehow different from that of others: there is no awareness of choice" (McDougall, 1986, p.21).
Some serious psycho-scientific drivel here! 
