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Psychiatry Giant Sorry for Backing Gay ‘Cure’

Started by Shana A, May 19, 2012, 08:02:53 AM

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May 19, 2012, 08:02:53 AM
Psychiatry Giant Sorry for Backing Gay 'Cure'
By BENEDICT CAREY
Published: May 18, 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/19/health/dr-robert-l-spitzer-noted-psychiatrist-apologizes-for-study-on-gay-cure.html?_r=1

PRINCETON, N.J. — The simple fact was that he had done something wrong, and at the end of a long and revolutionary career it didn't matter how often he'd been right, how powerful he once was, or what it would mean for his legacy.

Dr. Robert L. Spitzer, considered by some to be the father of modern psychiatry, lay awake at 4 o'clock on a recent morning knowing he had to do the one thing that comes least naturally to him.

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Dr. Spitzer's fingers jerked over the keys, unreliably, as if choking on the words. And then it was done: a short letter to be published this month, in the same journal where the original study appeared.

"I believe," it concludes, "I owe the gay community an apology."
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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