International Healing Foundation
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Template:NPOV The International Healing Foundation directed by Richard Cohen, M.A., calls homosexuality a Same-Sex Attachment Disorder (SSAD) and has developed a program of reparative therapy that it claims will help homosexuals who wish to transition to heterosexuality. Cohen initially based his ideas on the teachings of the Unification Church, but in the late 1990s he announced a break with the church and recast his ideas in almost purely psychological terms.
The following outlines the IHF's theory of the meaning and causes of homosexual orientation and their four-stage model of recovery.
Meaning and Causes
Hidden meanings of same-sex attractions
- need for same-sex parent's love
- need for gender identification
- fear of intimacy with the opposite sex
Basic causes
- heredity
- temperament
- hetero-emotional wounds
- homo-emotional wounds
- family dynamics / sibling wounds
- body image wounds
- peer wounds
- sexual abuse
- cultural wounds
- intrauterine influences and other factors
Four-stage model of recovery
- transitioning
- grounding
- healing homo-emotional wounds
- healing hetero-emotional wounds
According to IHF, this program has helped many men, women and adolescents cope with homosexuality.
Institute for Effective Therapy of Homosexuality
The Institute for Effective Therapy of Homosexuality (IETH) was created by the International Healing Foundation "for the purpose of developing, implementing and teaching successful methods for healing homosexuality".
They hold the view that homosexuality is a same-sex attraction "disorder" and seeks to help each affected person in coping with their homosexuality.
The view that homosexuality is a disease, illness, disorder, or "curable" condition is rejected by the psychiatric and psychological communities at large, such as by the American Psychiatric Association.
See also
External link
- IHF website (http://www.gaytostraight.org/)