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I can see where "forcing" this kind of change in someone could be psychologically violent. But what if they are desiring this?
If I may draw an analogy, this sort of change could be described as trying to re-arrange your brain. Now, think of another part of your body; say we decided to surgically re-arrange your hand. You might desire it, but there's no way we could do it without violence to the existing structures of bone and muscle and significant - even extreme - pain. While that's only an analogy, something similar would be true for your brain.
But even worse, in the case of conversion therapy, people would be attempting that re-arranging despite having no effective method to do so! They'd be causing all that pain and damage, while not achieving the promised outcome.
I would like to reiterate I don't know much about conversion therapy or the different kinds of conversion therapy.
I really suggest you do some reading, then.
But it sounds like some may be more like an AA type of therapy or very low key stuff. Is that true or are all of them physically violent or contain yelling, belittling verbal assaultive behaviors?
Even "very low key" therapy can be traumatic. One doesn't have to be violent or assaulting someone to do them significant harm. Words have power; and power to hurt.
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