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Moberly is the author of Homosexuality: A New Christian Ethic. It suggests several possible causes of male homosexuality and offers a therapeutic approach to restore patients' sense of their gender identity. She believes that a temperamental predisposition contributes, but that the primary cause of male homosexuality is the failure of boys to bond with their fathers. Moberly opposes this idea to the "domineering mother" idea in Freudian psychoanalysis. Moberly believes that homosexuality is a "reparative drive", an attempt to repair a lack of affection from persons of the same sex. She thinks that heterosexual "male bonding" is similar to homosexual desire but lacks a sexual element.
Building on this idea, proponents of reparative therapy work to build non-sexual bonds between men. They aim to increase a subject's feeling of masculinity and thereby lessen homosexual desires. Early in the 1980s Moberly coined the term "reparative therapy" to describe this approach. It has since been misleadingly applied to conversion therapy in general.
Bibliography
- Psychogenesis: The Early Development of Gender Identity.
- Homosexuality: A New Christian Ethic
External links
About the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality
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