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Joseph Nicolosi (January 24, 1947 – March 8, 2017) was an American clinical psychologist who advocated and practised "reparative therapy", a form of the pseudoscientific treatment of conversion therapy that he claimed could help people overcome or mitigate their homosexual desires and replace them with heterosexual ones.
Mar 16, 2017 · Joseph Nicolosi, a clinical psychologist whose advocacy of conversion therapy to diminish people’s same-sex attraction made him a vocal part of the “ex-gay” movement but marginalized him within...
Dec 28, 2017 · After each public denunciation of the industry they helped build, Nicolosi, a clinical psychologist who believed that male same-sex attraction was a developmental disorder caused by childhood...
Mar 10, 2017 · Psychologist Joseph Nicolosi, who stood for decades as one of the most stalwart defenders of ex-gay therapy, died on Wednesday from complications with the flu. He was 70. Nicolosi’s death was confirmed yesterday on Facebook by the Thomas Aquinas Psychological Clinic in Encino, California.
Mar 13, 2017 · What Nicolosi offered was a way for homophobic parents, patients, and psychologists to validate their anti-gay feelings as being legitimated by nature, science, and psychological evidence.
For many years, Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, Sr. assisted hundreds of clients with their goal to reduce their same-sex attractions and explore their heterosexual potential. A licensed clinical psychologist, he believed that our bodies tell us who we are, and that our bodies have made us for heterosexuality.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Joseph Nicolosi, a psychologist and major figure in the “ex-gay” movement that promotes a therapy designed to “cure” people of their homosexuality, has died at age 70.
