reparative therapy

English

Noun

reparative therapy (countable and uncountable, plural reparative therapies)

  1. (LGBTQ, pseudoscience) Synonym of conversion therapy.
    • 1990 February 4, John Zeh, “Hundreds Protest Homosexuality 'Summit'”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 1:
      Sheldon and about 70 supporters met all day at Sheraton Hotel here to map expansion of TVC's "reparative therapy for enslaved people afflicted with gender-identity conflict" and develop strategies to defeat initiatives that would classify gay "behavior" as a civil right.
    • 1991, Joseph Nicolosi, “Reparative therapy of male homosexuality: A new clinical approach”, in Jason Aronson‎[1]:
      Reparative therapy is not a cure in the sense of erasing all homosexual feelings. It is however, a successful treatment strengthening masculine identification.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see reparative,‎ therapy.

References

  • Jamie Ducharme (12 December 2023) “Exclusive: Conversion Therapy Is Still Happening in Almost Every U.S. State”, in Time‎[2]
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