Shock The Gay Away Summary

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Do you know why the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical? I didn’t know that lesbians, gays, and bisexuals were being forced by psychiatrists to undergo hospitalizations, aversions therapy, and electroshock therapy. This information got me researching future on the harsh reality of the past. What I know it, the treatments that were used back then was unethical can caused more damage than a cure, such as the transorbital lobotomy therapy. This article, Shock the Gay Away: Secrets of Early Gay Aversion Therapy Revealed (PHOTOS), speaks of the world now Doctor in the 40s that would perform a transorbital lobotomy. This doctor name is Dr. Walter Freeman; Dr. Walter Freeman would use a toothpick

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