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Until the 1970s, homosexuality was considered a psychiatric illness. Various treatments were used to change sexual orientation -- with little success. In 1992, homosexuality was removed from the International Classification of Diseases.
To document the qualitative experience of people who underwent treatments for homosexuality and of the practitioners who administered them, researchers in Britain conducted in-depth interviews with 29 people (28 men) who had undergone treatment, 2 relatives of treatment recipients, and 30 health professionals who had developed and administered treatments. Twenty-four former patients reported lifelong homosexual orientation, 4 identified themselves as bisexual, and 1 reported a change from heterosexual to homo…