Obama announced his support for national ban on \u201cgay conversion therapies\u201d, <\/a>but not a lot of Christians objected. Why is it worth mentioning? Because, in the 1980s and 1990s, lots of Christians advocated therapy to convert people into their straight sexual orientation. Why? Because they believed that homosexuality is more of a disease than a sin thanks to Freud. In the early 1900s, Freud claimed that everyone was born bisexual. Thus, one\u2019s childhood determined one\u2019s sexuality, so he said. However, as time progressed, it is empirically proven that his theory is incorrect based on the amount of therapies attempting to convert one\u2019s sexual orientation. On one hand, this explains why many Christians didn\u2019t say anything when Obama announced the ban of these therapies. On the other hand, this also speaks about Freud\u2019s credibility in other facets of Freud\u2019s theories.<\/p>\nFrom what I learned in my psychology classes, Freud\u2019s theories are all based on his own \u201cmake-up\u201d data and interpretations. For those who believed and practiced his theories, they brought illness upon others. For examples, in the 1990s, Holly Ramona, a patient who was treated through counselling for bulimia, was convinced by her therapist that her current condition happened because of her childhood sexual abuse. Specifically, she recalled under the therapists\u2019 guidance and sodium amytal, known as a \u201ctruth serum\u201d, that her father raped her between the ages of 5 and 8. Gary Ramona, her father, was destroyed because of these accusations, but he denied that he abused his daughter. After a series of appeals, it was determined that the psychiatrist\u2019s work was untrustworthy and unreliable because of Holly\u2019s distorted memory, so Gary was awarded $475,000 in damages. The psychiatrist was pleaded guilty via malpractice Thus, this is only one of a few examples showing how Freud\u2019s theories did more harm than good due to its unscientific nature. As more malpractice appears, we can see why scientific people appreciate Freud\u2019s theories for the basis of the unconscious more than anything else. Thus, one should not take Freud\u2019s theories too seriously these days, and the Christian community did just that in response to the ban of \u201cgay conversion therapies\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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