| 单词 | reparative therapy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasreparative therapy b. Psychiatry (originally and chiefly U.S.). Designating a form of psychotherapy aimed at understanding and addressing the formative experiences underlying a psychiatric condition; (now chiefly) spec. designating any of various forms of psychotherapy based on the view that homosexuality is a mental disorder that can be cured by addressing its causes. Chiefly in reparative therapy. Also: of or relating to therapy of this type. ΚΠ 1944 A. N. Foxe in Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Disorders Dec. 589 It may be taken as an axiom that any reparative therapy is binding—it binds the individual to the situation in which his illness developed. 1956 G. S. Goldman Reparative Psycholtherapy in S. Rado & G. E. Daniels Changing Concepts Psychoanalytic Med. 103 The goals of reparative psychotherapy are limited... The primary aim is the alleviation or elimination of symptoms. 1961 R. R. Grinker et al. Psychiatric Social Work v. 121 The conditions suitable for reparative therapy are mild neuroses, neuroses too serious for psychoanalysis, or when psychoanalysis is unavailable. 1965 P. Mayerson & H. I. Lief in J. Marmor Sexual Inversion xvii. 315 Reparative therapy is the usual method employed in the residents' clinic; the data shows that many patients with homosexual problems can be significantly helped by this type of therapy. 1970 J. Stein Neurosis in Contemp. Society 195/1 The reparative therapist distinguishes insight from mere understanding. 1993 Washington Times (Nexis) 22 Apr. b4 Reparative therapy poses a real threat to the gay-rights movement..because it undermines two of its key assumptions: that homosexuals are born that way and that they cannot change. 2005 G. Walton in J. T. Sears Youth, Educ., & Sexuality 710 Reparative therapy signifies that being LGBT is inferior to being heterosexual, and for some young men and women marks a traumatic experience. < as lemmas |
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