Review of Douglas C. Haldeman’s (Ed.) The Case Against Conversion “Therapy”: Evidence, Ethics, and Alternatives
The Case Against Conversion “Therapy”
(Haldeman, 2022) is as advertised. This compilation of authors on several topics related to sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE) and gender identity change efforts (GICE) presents what the book’s publisher, the American Psychological Association (APA), believes is the best case to support the eradication of all change exploring therapies. There is no pretense to supplying readers with any counterarguments or any sense of the complexities surrounding “conversion therapy.” In this review, I will briefly outline the contents of Haldeman’s work and then delve into some more specific topical issues that may be of particular interest to Alliance supporters.