Mr. Pate was quick to note: “I hear a lot of our [gay] siblings say, ‘I’m a survivor of conversion therapy,’ and I don’t put myself in that category. I don’t see it as something that was entirely or even mostly detrimental.” Even so, he described feeling pressured to accept reductive theories of homosexuality from a therapist who he felt was so eager for Mr. Pate to get married that he could spare no empathy for a potential partner, a sentiment echoed by several interviewees about their respective therapists.
Mr. Pate now thinks his therapist did not leave enough space for the Cross and for the possibility that he, as the
This is the cover of Be Transformed: The Healing Power of the Sacraments by Bob Schuchts. The book is reviewed by Mitch Finley. (CNS)
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Bob Schuchts is a retired marriage and family therapist and founder of the John Paul II Healing Center in Tallahassee, Florida. It is his conviction outlined in Be Transformed that for Catholics one of the fundamental purposes of each of the seven sacraments is to be a source of healing in a particular way.