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Conversion ‘Therapy’: Canada Should Ban an Immoral Non-Scientific Practice
“If you believe there is a God, a God that made your body, and yet you think that you can do anything with that body that’s dirty, then the fault lies with the manufacturer.” — Lenny Bruce
Emerald Bensadoun in Global News published an article entitled “Canada just tabled legislation to ban conversion therapy. Why is it necessary in 2020?“ It’s a good query. The more fundamental question, “Was it ever necessary?” As it is not a scientific construct, as such, but, more akin, to the idea of sexual addict or sex addiction, by analogy, this comes to the idea in an extensive discussion with Dr. Darrel Ray of the Secular Therapy Project and Recovering From Religion.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)-5 or the DSM-5 is the standard by which mental disorders are catalogued and given proper psychological reference at this time. Its last update was in 2013. The sexual addiction label was rejected in 2013 in spite of the proposal for inclusion seven years ago. The DSM-5/DSM-V does not incorporate “sex addict” or “sexual addiction” in itself. Thus, as Dr. Ray noted, to me, the idea of the psychological construct of sexual addiction is false or pseudoscience with the idea, in fact, extant as a theological construct within Christian counselling presented as if a psychological construct.
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