reparative therapy

English

reparative therapy (countable and uncountable, plural reparative therapies)

(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.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see reparative,‎ therapy.

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